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Newsletters and Posters

Stellwagen Soundings: News from the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
This 8 page newsletter is filled with timely articles about research,education and resource protection efforts ongoing in the sanctuary. Additional features highlight interesting scientific investigations or ecotourism topics. Free. Published 2-3 times per year.

Seafloor Topography of Stellwagen Bank
This full color poster provides a computer graphic image of the complex topography of the seafloor in Massachusetts Bay and Stellwagen Bank. Produced by the sanctuary from an image generated by the US Geological Survey (using computer visualization software and NOAA bathymetric data). 20"x30".



Books

Stellwagen Bank: A Guide to the Whales, Sea Birds and Marine Life of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Nathalie Ward/Center for Coastal Studies. 1995. Down East Books, Camden, ME. 232pp.
This publication was rated a "Hit-of-the-Week" by the Boston Globe. With more than 200 photos and illustrations, this spectacular book reveals the wealth of resources hidden in the waters of the sanctuary. Essays by resource users and researchers complement the descriptive text.

A Field Guide to Whales, Porpoises, and Seals from Cape Cod to Newfoundland. 4th Edition. Steven Katona, Valerie Rough and David T. Richardson. 1993. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. 316pp.
The variety of species found in the North Atlantic are detailed in this authoritative text that combines numerous black and white photos and line drawings with information about whale behavior, migration patterns and identifying features. All of the sanctuary's cetacean species are covered in this book.

Marine Life of the North Atlantic: Canada to New England. Andrew J. Martinez. self published. 1994. ISBN: 0-9640131-0-X. 272pp.
This photo guidebook, specializing in the rich diversity of invertebrate life in the North Atlantic, is an ideal tool for scuba divers and students of marine biology. Seaweeds and some marine fish are also covered.

Beneath the North Atlantic. Jonathan Bird. 1996. Tide-mark Press, Ltd., East Hartford, CT. 152pp.
This coffee table book is filled with amazing underwater photography as well as descriptive text that reveals the wonder of the North Atlantic to readers. The book is divided into sections based on biological phyla of the animal kingdom.
 
Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. Henry B. Bigelow and William C. Schroeder. Fishery Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service, Volume 53, Fishery Bulletin 74. 1953. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC. 577pp.
This is the "Bible" of fish guidebooks for the region, still referenced after all these years. The text is jam packed with technical information about fish predator-prey relationships, migration patterns, life stages, and habits. Black and white illustrations accompany the text for each species.
 
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Videos

From Whaling to Watching: The Northern Right Whale. 1997. Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary and Georgia Department of Natural Resources. 20 minutes, color, VHS.
This video won best of category (non-broadcast) in the 1998 International Wildlife Film Festival. The video highlights the biology and behavior of the North Atlantic population of the northern right whale, and conservation efforts underway to protect this critically endangered species. There is a companion teacher guidebook of the same name by Anne Smrcina, SBNMS and Sarah Mitchell, GRNMS, 36pp.

Bounty of the Banks. Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. 1997. 13 minutes, color, VHS.
Designed as a companion piece to an upcoming curriculum, this video also serves as a standalone film, focusing on human use of marine resources, particularly those of the Stellwagen Bank Sanctuary and elsewhere in the Gulf of Maine and northwest Atlantic Ocean. The video features Richard Wheeler, one of Time Magazine's Heroes of the Planet and star of the NOVA show "The Haunted Cry of a Long Gone Bird.



CD-Roms

A Guide to the Whales of the Northwestern Atlantic. Produced by WhaleNet. 1998.
Includes the complete index to humpback whale flukes in the North Atlantic as well as background information about species, individual sighting histories on individual whales, and other related data. See the WhaleNet home page for ordering information on this product.

The Food Bank: The Food Web at the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (to be completed by late 1999).
Produced by the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Filled with hundreds of photographs and dozens of video clips, this product demonstrates the complicated nature of the food web in these temperate waters. The latest information on predator-prey relationships is included.



Web Sites

WhaleNet (http://whale.wheelock.edu)
From whale fluke identifications to scientific tagging, this site covers a wide range of topics primarily related to whales, but also covering other marine species including endangered sea turtles and pinnipeds. Sections are specially designed for students, teachers, and the general public.

Journey North (http://www.learner.org/jnorth)
Winner of the 1999 Webby Award (known as the "Oscars of the Internet") in the Education Category, this site immerses more than 200,000 students into environmental science as they track the coming of spring through the migration patterns of butterflies, birds, and land and marine mammals, the budding of plants, changing daylight, and other clues in their local environment. For the past five years, the Stellwagen Bank Sanctuary has provided weekly humpback and right whale reports.



Exhibits

Storm Over Stellwagen -- Immersive Theater at the New England Aquarium.
This state-of-the-art exhibit recently opened to rave reviews. Audience members can participate in the flow of the show, answering pop quizzes and guiding the final outcome based on their management decisions for the Stellwagen Bank Sanctuary.

Creatures of the Bank: A photographic exploration into the biodiversity of the Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.
Produced by the sanctuary, on loan to the Nantucket Whaling Museum. Over 60 photos of organisms as small as bacteria and as large as fin whales illustrate the range and beauty of species in the sanctuary. Images were donated by numerous commercial and amateur underwater photographers.

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For more information on how to obtain these resources, please contact:

Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
175 Edward Foster Road
Scituate, MA 02066
tel: (781) 545-8026

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