Full Resource Guide

 2013 Theme Resources – The Great Lakes: A Window into Freshwater Science

Books

Dodds, Walter K. and Whiles, Matt R. Freshwater Ecology, Second Edition: Concepts and
       Environmental Applications of Limnology (Aquatic Ecology). 2010. ISBN-10: 0123747244

Dodson, Stanley. Introduction to Limnology. 2004
       ISBN: 0072879351

Needham, JG. Fresh-Water Biology. 1962
       ISBN-10: 0070461376

Spring, Barbara. The Dynamic Great Lakes. 2002
       ISBN-10: 1588517314

Thorp, James H. and Rogers, D. Christopher. Field Guide to Freshwater Invertebrates of North
       America. 2010. ISBN-10: 012381426X

Wetzel, Robert. Limnology, Third Edition: Lakes and River Ecosystems. 2001
       ISBN-10: 0127447601

Articles

Christie, G. C., & Goddard, C. I. (2003). Sea lamprey international symposium (SLIS II): Advances in the integrated management of sea lamprey in the great lakes. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 29, Supplement 1(0), 1-14. doi: 10.1016/S0380-1330(03)70474-2

Davis, M., Douglas, C., Calcote, R., Cole, K. L., Winkler, M. G., & Flakne, R. (2000). Holocene climate in the western great lakes national parks and lakeshores: Implications for future climate change. Conservation Biology, 14(4), 968-983.

Horan, R. D., & Lupi, F. (2005). Tradeable risk permits to prevent future introductions of invasive alien species into the great lakes. Ecological Economics, 52(3), 289-304. doi:        10.1016/j.ecolecon.2004.06.018

Metcalfe, C. D., Miao, X., Koenig, B. G., & Struger, J. (2003). Distribution of acidic and neutral drugs in surface waters near sewage treatment plants in the lower great lakes, canada. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 22(12), 2881-2889. doi: 10.1897/02-627

Stepien, C. A., Brown, J. E., Neilson, M. E., & Tumeo, M. A. (2005). Genetic diversity of invasive species in the great lakes versus their eurasian source populations: Insights for risk analysis. Risk Analysis, 25(4), 1043-1060. doi: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2005.00655.x

Great Lakes Trout Serve as Barometer for Global Pollutants
       http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=great-lakes-trout-serve-as-barometer-for-global-pollutants

New Agreement Aims to Keep Great Lakes’ Water Clean
       http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/09/14/new-agreement-aims-to-keep-great-lakes-water-clean/

Giant Carp, 100 pounds, Could Devastate Great Lakes
       http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=asian-carp-invasive-michigan-great-lakes-mississippi-river

Lake Superior, a Natural Global Warming Gauge, Is running a Fever
       http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=lake-superior-a-natural-global-warming-gauge-is-running-a-fever

Websites

Great Lakes Science Center through the USGS:
       http://www.glsc.usgs.gov/main.php?content=research&title=Research0&menu=research

Great Lakes: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA
       http://epa.gov/greatlakes/

The Great Lakes An Environmental Atlas and Resource Book
       http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/atlas/

Asian Carp and the Great Lakes. Congressional Research Service.
       www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41082.pdf

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
       http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/Invasives/what.html

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Video showing how to test for Asian Carp DNA in rivers
       http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/asian-carp/index.html

Great Lakes Information Network
        http://www.great-lakes.net/lakes/

Chemical exchanges between sediments and water in the Great Lakes-speculations on probable regulatory mechanisms
       http://wap.aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_16/issue_2/0387.pdf

National Geographic: Freshwater 101
       http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshwater/freshwater-101/

Curriculum/Lesson Plans

NEMO: NOAA Enrichment in Marine Science and Oceanography 

NEMO is a comprehensive curriculum on ocean science provided by NOAA, originally developed to enrich learning for students in Washington, DC. It covers all the primary topics of included in the NOSB competition, making it a superb resource for any team. New NOSB teams and ocean science clubs will find it especially useful. NEMO is also a great teaching resource for high school science teachers.

NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration & Research, Educational Materials

The NOAA Ocean Exploration program provides a variety of learning and teaching tools designed to engage broad audiences and enhance America’s environmental literacy through the excitement of ocean discovery. The available tools include hundreds of lesson plans written by teachers for teachers, lessons built around specific ocean exploration expeditions across the globe, multimedia packages on specific ocean science topics, the Learning Ocean Science through Ocean Exploration curriculum, and a collection of background information and lessons associated with the Gulf of Mexico and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Also available are educational materials that were developed to encourage educators, students, and citizen scientists to become personally involved with the voyages and discoveries of America’s first Federal ship dedicated to Ocean Exploration:

NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer Education Materials Collection

Volume 1: Why Do We Explore?

Volume 2: Why Do We Explore?

NOAA Education Resources for Educators concerning the Gulf Oil Spill

NOAA State of the Coast Web Site Lessons Pilot Project

State of the Coast Lesson Plan Pilot Project Description

State of the Coast Lesson Plan Descriptions

State of the Coast Lesson Plan Feedback Form

Deep Earth Academy (DEA) Information for Educators

          DEA Lesson Plans for Grades 9-12

          DEA Lesson Plans for Undergraduates

MPA Facts and Tools for Ocean Literacy

The MPA Center has created a new publication on marine protected area resources and concepts for teaching Ocean Literacy.  The document melds the “Ocean Literacy: Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts” developed by the National Geographic Society, NOAA and partners for K-12 curricula with resources from MPA Center that illustrate those principles. The information is intended to help educators improve ocean literacy by highlighting MPA Center resources on marine protected areas and conservation. For more information on MPA Education, visit www.mpa.gov.

Integration & Application Network in Maryland

The Integration and Application Network (IAN) is a dedicated group of scientists intent on solving, not just studying environmental problems. IAN is an initiative of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. IAN’s mission is to inspire, manage and produce timely syntheses and assessments on key environmental issues, with a special emphasis on Chesapeake Bay and its watershed.

The Integration & Application Network in Maryland makes available a symbol bank with FREE vector graphics that can be used in Illustrator or in an online diagram creator. 

The base site for all of the symbols is at:
http://ian.umces.edu/symbols/
 
For a .pdf with thumbnails of all the graphics available:
http://ian.umces.edu/pdfs/ian_symbol_library_catalog.pdf
 
For the online diagram creator (if you don’t have access to Adobe products):
http://ian.umces.edu/diagrammer/editor/svg-editor.html
A quick overview of how to use it: http://ian.umces.edu/symbols/diagrammer_demo.php

Books

Any ONE of these textbooks will address the breadth of topics covered in an NOSB competition. Purchasing information is provided below, but as a teacher you may be able to request a complimentary copy. You may find earlier editions of these texts by the same authors in the library. Generally, any edition published since 1990 will be adequate.

Moran, Joseph, Ed.  Ocean Studies: Introduction to Oceanography, 2nd Edition, 2008.
ISBN: 187822090X
American Meteorological Society

AMS Ocean Studies Investigations Manual:2010-2011 & Summer 2011
American Meterological Society

Sverdrup, Keith and Virginia Armherst.  Introduction to the World’s Oceans, 10th edition, 2008
ISBN:  00733767701
McGraw-Hill Publishers

Garrison, Thomas.  Oceanography: An Invitation to Marine Science, 6th edition, 2006.
ISBN-13: 9780495112860
Brooks Cole Publishing

Life on the Ocean Planet
ISBN# 978-1-878663-34-4
Current Publishing

Pinet, Paul R. Invitation to Oceanography, 4th Edition, Colgate University, 2006.
ISBN-10: 0763745103
Jones & Bartlett

Segar, Douglas A. Introduction to Ocean Sciences, 2nd edition, Dec. 2006.
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-92629-3
W.W. Norton & Co.

Thurman, Harold V. & Burton, Elizabeth.  Introductory Oceanography, 9th ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, 2001.
ISBN: 0-13-857061-2
Prentice-Hall Publishing

Garrison, Tom. Essentials in Oceanography, 5th ed. Brooks Cole Publishing Company, 2008.
ISBN: 978-0-49555-531-5
Brooks Cole Publishing

Other Books

These books cover fewer topics, but the coverage is more in-depth. They have been designed for secondary grade levels. These would be good supplemental texts to any of those listed above.

Limnology: Lake and River Ecosystems.  Robert G. Wetzel. Academic Press.

Curriculum Research and Development Group. The Fluid Earth: Physical Science and Technology of the Marine Environment, 3rd ed. U. Hawaii, Honolulu, 1996.
ISBN: 0-937049-58-1.

Curriculum Research and Development Group. The Living Ocean: Biology and Technology of the Marine Environment, 3rd ed. U. Hawaii, Honolulu, 1996.
ISBN: 0-937049-75-1

Greene, Thomas F. Marine Science, 1998.
ISBN: 0-87720-071-8
AMSCO order code: R 451 P
AMSCO Publishing

Niesen, Thomas. The Marine Biology Coloring Book, 2nd Edition.
ISBN: 0064603032

Periodicals

The following periodicals are all good sources of information regarding the oceans.  Students need only be concerned with information that has been published from the last five years.

Click on the title to visit a web site associated with the magazine. Some web sites have more information than others, such as complete articles on line, topic summaries, etc. All have online subscription information. Your local public library or school librarian should be able to provide more information on where these sources are located in your area.

• Marine Technology Society Journal
  
• Discover
• National Geographic
• Nature
• Oceanography
• Oceanus (the semi-annual report of current research at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
• Scientific American
• Science
• Science News

CD-ROMS

Tasagraph’s “The Theory of Plate Tectonics”
Cost: $59 for first CD, $38.35 thereafter (plus s/h).
Contact: Tasa Graphic Arts, Inc.
Tel: (800) 293-2725
E-mail: TasaGraph [at] aol [dot] com
Website: http://www.tasagraphicarts.com/progplate.html

Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s “A Visit to an Ocean Planet”
Cost: $0 for first CD (order on-line)
Contact: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Tel: (818) 354-4321
E-mail: podaac [at] podaac [dot] jpl [dot] nasa [dot] gov for multiple copies
Website: http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/ for a single copy

Websites

There is a lot of good information on the World Wide Web on the oceans. However, there is also no quality-control mechanism. For this reason, we are restricting our recommendations to U.S. Government web sites and “The BRIDGE”. Once you leave the government domain via a “link”, there is no certainty that the information you find there is valid. These sites are offered as starting points and, therefore, these URLs are the most general ones for each agency. In some cases, particular pages of note within an agency’s web site are listed as well. These sites are a treasure trove of information, but as with most treasures it takes some time to find what you are seeking! We recommend that you use these sites mostly for studying about ocean-related current events.

• BRIDGE Ocean Sciences Teacher Resource Center
• Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
• Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE)
• Great Lakes Lessons
• JOIDES Resolution
• National Aeronautics & Space Administration’s Earth Science Enterprise
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• NOAA Ocean Explorer
• NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Lab
• National Science Foundation’s Directorate of Geosciences
• Naval Oceanographic Office
• Ocean Literacy
• U. S. Geological Survey Check out the USGS “Learning Web”
• World Ocean Observatory Ocean Classroom