Bookshelf & Art
Books for Seaweed and Aquaculture
- Seaweed Sustainability Food and Non-food Applications edited by Brijesh K. Tiwari and Declan J. Troy
- Poison Pearl
- Marine Macro- and Microalgae: An Overview by F. Xavier Malcata, Isabel Sousa Pinto, A. Catarina Guedes
- This book covers current knowledge on uses of marine algae to obtain bulk and fine chemicals, coupled with optimization of the underlying production and purification processes. Major gaps and potential opportunities in this field are discussed in a critical manner.
- The Curious World of Seaweed by Josie Iselin
- Marine Algae of California by George J. Hollenberg and Isabella Aiona Abbott
- * see also Marine Algae of the Hawaiian Islands by Isabella Aiona Abbott
- * the mother of California seaweed ecology!
- Pacific Seaweeds
- * best photographs for identification
- Seaweed: A Global History by Kaori O'connor
- Seaweed Memories in the jaws of the sea by Heinrich Becker
- Seaweeds by David Thomas
- Slime by Ruth Kassinger
- Natural history, current uses, and sustainable potentials of algae
Marine Literature: general
- Cannery Rowby John Steinbeck
- Risingtidefallingstar by Philip Hoare
- Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology by Astrida Neimanis
- The Sea Can Wash Away All Evils Modern Marine Pollution and the Ancient Cathartic Ocean by Kimberley Patton
- Swimming in Circles Aquaculture and the Death of Wild Oceans by Paul Molyneaux
- Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times by Stacy Alimo
- The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
- Between Pacific Tides by Edward F. Ricketts and Jack Calvin
- Seaweed Chronicles a World at Water’s Edge by Susan Hand Shetterly
- Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean by Jonathan White
- Waves of Knowing: A Seascape Epistemology by
- Ingersoll marks a critical turn away from land-based geographies to center the ocean as place. Developing the concept of seascape epistemology, she articulates an indigenous Hawaiian way of knowing founded on a sensorial, intellectual, and embodied literacy of the ocean.
- Rising: dispatches from the new American shore by Elizabeth Rush
- Tidalectics: Imagining and Oceanic Worldview through Art and Science edited by Stefanie Hessler (MIT)

Josie Iselin
Films
- Greenhorns seaweed documentary: Belonging to the Seaweed Community
- Man of Aran
- Artifishal by Patagonia
- Artifishal is a film about people, rivers, and the fight for the future of wild fish and the environment that supports them. It explores wild salmon’s slide toward extinction, threats posed by fish hatcheries and fish farms, and our continued loss of faith in nature.
- Fishpeople by Patagonia
- The stories of people who have dedicated their lives to the sea