Recommended Resources
Winter 2012 Meet the Sea!
DEC Web Pages
Whales of New York (PDF) by Eileen Stegemann and Bill Fonda (Conservationist, August 2010)
Giants at Our Feet: New York's Horseshoe Crabs (PDF) by Lee Roscoe and Eileen Stegemann (Conservationist, June 2011)
Seahorses: Long Island's Fish Oddities (PDF) by Christopher Paparo (Conservationist, August 2011)
Teaching About the Hudson River
Color Brochures and Poster of NY Natural Resources
DEC-TV Online Videos
"Fishing for Bluefish"
"I Fish NY"
"Urban Fishing in New York"
Web Resources
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administraion
National Estuarine Research Reserve System
Education Resources on Marine Life
National Ocean Service Education
Fisheries' Office of Protected Resources For Kids
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA's Students for the Environment
EPA's water-education resources for teachers and students
EPA's Marine Ecosystems web page
New York Sea Grant's resources for teachers and students
New York State Marine Education Association
Riverhead Foundation for Marine Preservation and Research
Coastal Research and Education Society of Long Island
Long Island Sound Study (curriculum for teaching about Long Island Sound in the classroom or by the shore)
The Bridge, marine education resources
National Marine Educators Association
The River Project (with links to underwater video of the Hudson River at New York City)
Print Resources
Diving Into Oceans ed. Judy Braus (Ranger Rick's Nature Scope, National Wildlife Federation, Washington, DC, 1997)
Seals: Winter Visitors to New York Waters by Eileen Gerle (Conservationist, December 1999)
New York's Estuaries by Steve Stanne (Conservationist, August 2003)
Earth's Oceans by Lesley McFadzean (Discovery Edition, Sydney, Australia, 2011)
A Field Guide to North Atlantic Wildlife by Noble Proctor and Patrick Lynch (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 2005)
The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor by Joanna Cole (Scholastic Inc., New York, 1992)
The Naturalist's Guide to the Atlantic Seashore by Scott Shumway (Falcon Guides, Guilford, CT, 2008)
Oceans by Andy Williams (Crabtree Publishing Company, New York, 2002)