The Maryland Sea Grant Bookstore is closed for the winter holidays from Monday, December 15th to Friday, January 5th and will not be taking orders during that time.
Bookstore
The online store will be closed from December 15, 2025 to January 2, 2026.
While you can still browse our selection, you will not be able to order anything during the store closure. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.Maryland Sea Grant produces a wide range of publications — reference books, guides, reports, fact sheets and periodicals — as well as short and feature-length videos. You may order copies of these materials or download pdfs through this bookstore.
Academic Reprints: To access academic reprints resulting from our funding, visit your university library or the National Sea Grant Library.
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Predictive Ecology: The History of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science 1925-2025
Now available from Maryland Sea Grant!
The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) traces its origins to the establishment of the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in 1925. Originally directed to conduct scientific studies on Maryland’s natural resources, UMCES and its constituent…
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Diseases & Parasites of the Eastern Oyster, Crassostrea virginica, in Chesapeake Bay: An Illustrated Reference Guide
This is a comprehensive, color-illustrated guide to histological presentations of diseases, pathogens, and parasites of eastern oysters, Crassostrea virginica.
It includes 18…
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Decoding the Deep Sediments: The Ecological History of Chesapeake Bay
The sediments of Chesapeake Bay harbor a record of the Bay's ecology, from its "natural functioning" thousands of years before European colonization through post-Colonial settlement and the…
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Who Killed Crassostrea virginica : The Fall and Rise of Chesapeake Bay Oysters
The Chesapeake was once home to the richest oyster grounds in the world. The native oyster, Crassostrea virginica, built massive reefs and filtered vast…
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The Blue Crab: Callinectes sapidus
An essential resource for researchers, students, and managers, this book is the first comprehensive reference work on the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus.
The blue crab is a…
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Underwater Grasses in Chesapeake Bay & Mid-Atlantic Coastal Waters: Guide to Identifying Submerged Aquatic Vegetation
Spiral-bound guide, 76 pp. + vi, soft cover, 8.5" wide x 5" tall, 138 color photographs, 55 line drawings, 19 color maps and 2 graphs.
Underwater grasses, or submerged aquatic vegetation (…
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Working the Chesapeake: Watermen on the Bay
To learn firsthand, from their own mouths and aboard their own boats, more about the lives of Chesapeake watermen, Mark Jacoby went out with them in all seasons and in all weathers. He followed…
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News and Blogs
Chesapeake Quarterly Magazine
The Nature of Learning: Environmental Education for the Next Generation
