In addition to the websites linked througout the webpages of this website, several other resources were fundamental in the writing of the "Taste of Seawater" Ocean Literacy Companion Textbook:
Alessi J., Vanacore A., Cicoria E., Spatial risk analysis of floating marine macro litter along the Western Sicilian coast: Overlap with bottlenose dolphin and seabird hotspots., Marine Policy, Volume 167, 2024, 106274, ISSN 0308-597X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2024.106274.
Bearzi, Giovanni & REEVES, RANDALL & Notarbartolo di Sciara, Giuseppe & Politi, Elena & Cañadas, Ana & Frantzis, Alexandros & Mussi, Barbara. (2003). Ecology, status and conservation of short‐beaked common dolphins Delphinus delphis in the Mediterranean Sea. Mammal Review. 33. 224 - 252. 10.1046/j.1365-2907.2003.00032.x.
Bellingeri, M., Nebuloni, A., La Manna, G. et al. Investigating the presence of different bottlenose dolphin ecotypes in the Mediterranean Sea. Sci Rep 15, 5526 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-88605-0
Bernaldo de Quiro et al. 2019 Advances in research on the impacts of anti-submarine sonar on beaked whales. Proc. R. Soc. B 286: 20182533. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2533
Boero, F.. (2013). Review of jellyfish blooms in the Mediterranean and Black Sea. GFCM Studies and Reviews. 92.
Cava, F., Schoedinger, S., Strang, C., Tuddenham, P., 2005. Science Content and Standards for Ocean Literacy: A Report on Ocean Literacy. http://www.coexploration.org/oceanliteracy/documents/OLit2004-05_Final_Report.pdf
Codex Y. The Impact of Rhopilema nomadica on Marine Food Webs and Ecosystem Services: A Review of Feeding Ecology, Interactions, and Cascading Effects. Yubetsu Codex Biology. 2023;1(1). https://codex.yubetsu.com/article/e83b0994860f4adabead29d8c97ab4cc
Eckerle, A. 2024. First description and Photo ID catalogue of the Risso’s dolphin Grampus griseus (G. Cuvier, 1812) population off Northern Norway. Bachelor Thesis - Ludwig Maximilians Universitàt Munchen.
European Marine Science Educators Association (EMSEA), 2021. Mediterranean Sea Literacy. Halversen, C., Schoedinger, S., & Payne, D. (2021).
Gnone, G.; Bellingeri, M.; Airoldi, S.; Gonzalvo, J.; David, L.; Di-Méglio, N.; Cañadas, A.M.; Akkaya, A.; Awbery, T.; Mussi, B.; et al. Cetaceans in the Mediterranean Sea: Encounter Rate, Dominant Species, and Diversity Hotspots. Diversity 2023, 15, 321. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15030321
IUCN (2023). The conservation status of cetaceans in the Mediterranean Sea: trends and changes after a decade of conservation efforts. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN
Jahoda, M., Zanardelli, M., Dhermain, F., Alessi, J., Armonio, F., Ballardini, M., Barcelo, A., Calogero, G., Fontanesi, E., Frantzis, A., Menniti, M.A., Monaco, C., Obadia, C., Pellegrino, G., Raffa, A., Tardy, C., Verga, A., Violi, B. and Panigada, S. (2025), Codamozza-Fluker: The Compelling Case of a Flukeless Fin Whale Traveling Throughout the Mediterranean Sea and the Need for Basin-Wide Conservation Efforts. Ecol Evol, 15: e71313. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71313
Katrin S. Hoydal, Sissal V. Erenbjerg, Maria Dam, Mercury speciation in pilot whale from Faroe Islands, 1977–2015, Environmental Pollution, Volume 356, 2024, 124243, ISSN 0269-7491,
Marine Mammals and Sea Turtles of the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Gland, Switzerland and Malaga, Spain: IUCN. 32 pages.
McKinley, E., Burdon, D., Shellock, R.J. The evolution of ocean literacy: A new framework for the United Nations Ocean Decade and beyond, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 186, 2023, 114467, ISSN 0025-326X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.114467.
McRuer, J., Glithero, D. L., McKinley, E., Pagès, J. F., Fauville, G., Morris-Webb, E., Hart, N., Strang, C., Christofoletti, R., Pinheiro, B., Payne, D. L., Lindoso, V., Machado Martins, I., Hulme, S., Grainger, E., Bridge, N., Zandvliet, D., Bumbeer, J., Shellock, R., Bueno Fernandes, M. (2025). Co-designing the Ocean & Society Survey–A Global Tool for Understanding People-Ocean Connections and Mobilizing Ocean Action. Ocean & Society, 2. https://doi.org/10.17645/oas.9809
Mokos, M., Cheimonopoulou, M.T., Koulouri, P., Previati, M., Realdon, G. et al., 2020. Mediterranean Sea Literacy: When Ocean Literacy becomes region-specific. Mediterranean Marine Science, 21(3), 592- 598. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.23400
National Geographic Society
National Marine Educators Association (NMEA), College of Exploration, 2005. Ocean Literacy: The Essential Principles of Ocean Sciences K-12. Pamphlet resulting from the 2-week On-Line Workshop on Ocean Literacy through Science Standards.
National Marine Educators Association (NMEA), 2010. Ocean Literacy Scope and Sequence for Grades K-12, Special Report #3 on The Ocean Literacy Campaign Featuring the Ocean Literacy Scope & Sequence for Grades K-12. http://www.oceanliteracy.net
National Marine Educators Association (NMEA), 2012. A Handbook for Increasing Ocean Literacy: Tools for Educators and Ocean Literacy Advocates.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2013. Ocean Literacy: The Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts of Ocean Sciences for Learners of All Ages.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2020. Ocean Literacy: The Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts of Ocean Sciences for Learners of All Ages.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA. https://www.coexploration.org/oceanliteracy/documents/OceanLitChart.pdf
Ocean & Society Survey - Aug 2025 copy of GUIDEBOOK for OSS
OceanCare (2021) Under Pressure: The need to protect whales and dolphins in European waters. An OceanCare report, link.
Otero, M., Serena F., Gerovasileiou, V.,Barone, M., Bo, M., Arcos, J.M., Vulcano A., Xavier, J., 2019. Identification guide of vulnerable species incidentally caught in Mediterranean fisheries. IUCN, Malaga, Spain, 204 pages.
Pereda Briones, L, Infantes, E., Orfila, A., Tomas, F., Terrados, J. April 2018. Dispersal of seagrass propagules: Interaction between hydrodynamics and substratum type. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 593.
Realdon, G. Lost at sea – the amazing journeys of rubber ducks around the world Studying ocean currents following the Friendly Floatees ocean spill, link.
Realdon, G. Ocean Literacy for All-Practical labs to be performed in the classroom. Scientix Workshop 2023, link.
Santoro, F. et al. (eds), 2017. Ocean Literacy for All - A toolkit, UNESCO Venice Office and Regional Beureau for Science and Culture in Europe (Italy), Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Venice, 136 pages. UNESCO-IOC, 2021. Ocean Literacy Framework for he UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable development 2021-2030. Paris, UNESCO. IOC Ocean Decade Series, 22, 32 pages.
Stelfox M., Hudgins J., Sweet M., A review of ghost gear entanglement amongst marine mammals, reptiles and elasmobranchs, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 111, Issues 1–2, 2016, Pages 6-17, ISSN 0025-326X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.06.034.
Whitehead H, Shin M. Current global population size, post-whaling trend and historical trajectory of sperm whales. Sci Rep. 2022 Nov 14;12(1):19468. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-24107-7. PMID: 36376385; PMCID: PMC9663694.
Zandvliet, D. (2021). Evaluating Ocean Perceptions and Ocean Values: The Canadian Ocean Literacy Survey. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education.
I tried my best to indicate all sources that I've used however, my training is in Ocean Sciences (Master's from UC-Santa Cruz)
and somethings have been with me since my days in Hawaii.