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Marine and Aquatic Science Library Research Guide

Books: Pegasus Catalog: Books and other items available at the UCSB Libraries; MELVYL Catalog: Books and other items available at any of the UC campuses' libraries

E-Books: Columbia Earthscape Books; Columbia Gazetteer of the World; Concepts in Biological Oceanography: An Interdisciplinary Primer; ENVIROnetBASE; Handbook of Environmental Chemistry; Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program; United States Geological Survey Publications

Article Indexes and Databases

Aquatic Science and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) Marine, brackish, and freshwater science (1971-present).

Oceanic Abstracts Worldwide literature on the marine and brackish water environment (1981-present).

Natural Sciences Databases via CSA Searches 27 earth, environmental, and life science databases (dates vary).

Water Resources Abstracts Characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources (1967-present).

Biological Sciences Biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology, ecology and more (1982-present).

BioOne Publications of major American biological societies (dates vary; mostly 2000-present).

BIOSIS Previews Comprehensive life sciences database (1926-present).

Web of Science Citation database (1945-present).

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Dissertations

Pegasus - Try a "subject begins with" search with this subject heading: Dissertations, Academic -- UCSB -- Marine Science

Dissertations and Theses (Dissertation Abstracts) Indexes dissertations from 1861 to the present from over 1,000 universities. Full text access to dissertations from all UC campuses 1997 to the present.

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Dictionary of Marine Technology	SEL Ref VM 600 T38 1989
Dictionary of Oceanography and Marine Biology	SEL Ref GC 9.H67 1999
Elsevier’s Dictionary of Aquatic Biology	SEL Ref QH 90.2.S63 1999
Elsevier’s Dictionary of Fisheries	SEL Ref SH 201.E26 1999
Encyclopedia of Aquaculture	SEL Ref SH 20.3.E53 2000
Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences	SEL Ref QC 854 .E522 2003
Encyclopedia of Biodiversity	SEL Ref QH 541.15.B56 E53 2001
Encyclopedia of Coastal Science	SEL Ref TC 203.7 .E53 2005
Encyclopedia of Environmental Biology	SEL Ref QH 540.4 E52 1995
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences	SEL Ref QH 302.5.E53 2002
Encyclopedia of Marine Animals	SEL Ref QL 121.C643 1991
Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals	SEL Ref QL 713.2.E53 2002
Encyclopedia of Marine Sciences	SEL Ref GC 9.E56 1998
Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences	SEL Ref GC 9.E57 2001
Encyclopedia of the Sea	SEL Ref GC 9.E38 2000
Facts on File Dictionary of Marine Science	SEL Ref GC 9.F28 2001
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia	SEL Ref QL 7.G7813 2003
New Encyclopedia of Aquatic Life	SEL Ref QL 120.N49 2004
Ocean World Encyclopedia	SEL Ref GC 9.G76
World Encyclopedia of Fishes	SEL Ref QL 614.7.W48 1985

Handbooks and Manuals

Admiralty Tide Tables	SEL Ref VK 600.A35 2007
Atlas of Marine Invertebrate Larvae	SEL Ref QL 365.363.A74 2002
Bivalve Seashells of Western North America	SEL Ref QL 430.6.C628 2000
Corals of the World	SEL Ref QL 377.C5 V44 2000
CRC Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine	SEL Ref SF 997.5.M35 C73 2001
Environmental Chemistry	SEL QD 31.2 .M35 2000 [Regular Loan]
Freshwater Algae of North America	SEL Ref QK 570.5.F74 2003
Handbook of Ecological Parameters and Ecotoxicity	SEL Ref QH 545.A1 J66 1991
Handbook of Environmental and Ecological Modeling	SEL Ref QH 541.15 S5 H36 1996
Handbook of Scaling Methods in Aquatic Biology	SEL Ref QH 541.5.W3 H36 2003
Light and Smith Manual: Intertidal Invertebrates from Central California to Oregon	SEL Ref QL 164.153 2007
Manual on Harmful Marine Microalgae	SEL Ref QK 568.T67 M35 2003
Marine Algae of California	SEL Ref QK 571.5.C2.M37
Plankton: A Microscopic World	SEL Ref QH 90.8 P5 H35 1988
Practical Handbook of Marine Science	SEL Ref GC 11.2.P73 2001
Probably More Than You Wanted to Know About Fishes of the Pacific Coast	SEL Ref QL 628. P32.L68 1996
Seabirds: An Identification Guide	SEL Ref QL 673.H29 1983
Seashore Life of Southern California	SEL Ref QH 105 C2 H56 1987
Shorebirds of North America	SEL Ref QL 681.P37 2005
Smith's Sea Fishes	SEL Ref QL 635.S6.S56 1986
Tide Tables: West Coast of North and South America, including Hawaii and Alaska	SEL Ref VK 741 T52 2007
World Atlas of the Oceans	MIL G2800 .W4413 2001 [Map and Imagery Lab]