Recommended Reading for AIO Students
A Field Guide to
North Atlantic Wildlife
by Proctor and Lynch

Designed for boaters,
fishermen, whale
watchers, birders and
others who enjoy
offshore environments.
Covers life from Cape
Hatteras to
Newfoundland. 

 Marine Life of the
North Atlantic
by Andrew Martinez

Spiral bound book is
very well organized and
includes beautiful
photos of the organisms
taken by the author.
Each entry has a space to
record you first sighting
of the animal or plant
listed.
Marine Biology Coloring Book
2nd Edition

Have fun coloring while you learn. Execellent drawings of the internal and external anatomy of various marine organisms. Many college students use the coloring book series.

SeaLife
by Geoffrey Waller

Thorough but readable guide to everything you ever wanted to know about the ocean. A must for any marine science student.
Seaside Naturalist
by Deborah Coulombe

Fun and easy to use guide to marine life.

 A Field Guide to
Atlantic Seashores
by Kenneth Gosner

One of several in the Peterson Field Guide series, this book does a fine job of helping you identify almost anything you’ll see along the Atlantic coast
Pisces Guide to Venomous & Toxic Marine Life
of the World
by Patricia Cunningham
and Paul Goetz

A useful guide to identifying toxic marine life along with first aid information for the different species.

 Snokeling Guide to Marine Life
by Paul Humann

This guide is a condensed version of several of his reef guides. Great for taking on the boat for quick indentification of organisms.
Reef Creatures Identification
by Paul Humann

One of a series of reef guides (also consider Reef Fish, Reef Coral and Reef Fish Behavior).  Very well organized and easy to use, the beautiful photographs make the identification of reef creatures less time consuming.  Highly recommended for participants in our Jamaica or Bermuda programs as well as anyone who intends to study in a tropical environment.

Or, you can buy a boxed set of the books.
The Secret Life of Lobsters
by Trevor Corson

In this intriguing and entertaining book, Corson brings together the often conflicting worlds of commercial lobstermen and marine scientists, showing how the two sides joined forces and tried for 15 years to solve the mystery of why the lobsters were disappearing. He brings the story to life by concentrating on the lobstermen and their families who live in one Maine fishing community, Little Cranberry Island, as well as the research of scientists who, obsessed with the curious life of lobsters.