Resources for Marine Information
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The following resources of literature, textbooks and websites contain information on the ecology of Baja California, Mexico that we found interesting and useful.
Oceans Currents and Patterns

Advanced Computing Lab / Los Alamos National Laboratory. 2001. Major oceanic
surface currents. http://www.acl.lanl.gov/GrandChal/GCM/currents.html

Amaral, K. El Niño and the Southern Oscillation: A reversal of fortune.
http://www.umassd.edu/Public/People/Kamaral/thesis/ElNino.html

Gross, M. G., 1993. Oceanography: A view of earth. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs.
446 pp.

Feldman, G.C. 2001. Ocean Currents by Ocean planet: Smithsonian
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/oceanography_currents_1.html

NOAA and U.S. Department of Commerce. 2001b. NOAA El Niño Page.
http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/

NOAA and U.S. Department of Commerce. 2001a. What is an El Niño?
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/el-nino-story.html

NOAA and U.S. Department of Commerce. 2001c. What are La Niña, El Niño and
Normal Conditions in the Pacific Ocean? http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/la-nina-pacific.html

Nordhoff, C. 1888. Peninsular California. Harper & Brothers, New York. 130pp.

Philander, S.G. 1999. El Niño and La Niña predictable climate fluctuations. Rep. Prog.
Phys. 62:123-142.

University of Southern California. 2001. Ocean currents and climate.
http://earth.usc.edu/~stott/Catalina/Oceans.html

Wheelock, W. and H.E. Gulick. 1975. Baja California guidebook. Arthur H. Clark
Company, California. 232pp.

Zwinger, A. 1961. A desert country near the sea. Harper & Row, New York. 399pp

Marine Mammals

Baja Expeditions 2001. http://www.bajaexpeditions.com

Island Conservation 2001. http://www.islandconservation.org

Marine Mammals 2000. http://bonita.mbnms.nos.noaa.gov/sitechar/mamm2.html

Martin, R.M. Mammals of the Oceans. G.P. Putnam and Sons: New York, 1977.

Niesen, T.M. The Marine Biology Coloring Book. Barnes&Noble: New York, 1982.

Orr, R.T. and R.C. Helm. Marine Mammals of California, New and Revised Edition. University of California Press: Berkley, 1989.

Ridgway, S.H. and R.J. Harrison. Handbook of Marine Mammals Volume 2: Seals. Academic Press: London, 1981.

Ridgway, S.H. and R.J. Harrison. Handbook of Marine Mammals Volume 3: The Sirenians and Baleen Whales. Academic Press: London, 1981.

Scheffer, V.B. A Natural History of Marine Mammals. Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1976.

Fish of the Sea of Cortez

Findley, L., Kerstitch, A., and Thompson, D. (2000). Reef Fishes of the Sea of Cortez. Austin, TX: The University of Texas Press

Gotshall, Daniel W. (1998). Sea of Cortez Marine Animals a guide to the common fishes and invertebrates Baja California to Panama. Monteray, CA: Sea Challangers

http://qualitymarineusa.com/fish/

http://www.oceanoasis.org

http://www.enature.com
Marine Plants :

Abbott, Isabella A. and Hollenberg, George J. 1976. Marine Algae of California. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California.

Graham, Linda E. and Wilcox, Lee W. 2000. Algae. Prentice Hall, New Jersey.

Littler, D.S., Littler, M.M., Bucher, K.E., Norris, J.N. 1989. Marine Plants of the Caribbean. Airlife, England.

Moore, R., Clark, W.D., and Vodopich, D.S. 1998. Botany (second edition). WCB/McGraw-Hill.

Waaland, J. Robert. 1977. Common Seaweeds of the Pacific Coast. Pacific Search Press, Seattle, Washington.