Seascapes: Getting to Know the Sea Around Us. A Guide to Characterizing Marine and Coastal Areas

by Jennifer Atkinson

Seascapes is for anyone who ever wanted to learn more about their marine environment by getting their hands wet. It answers the basic questions about how to carry out marine area characterization studies, what information is needed, how should findings be communicated, and much more. Although written for the Gulf of Maine region, its content is applicable to similar environments.

80 pages, Paperback

Published June 25, 2008

About the author

Apart from Drift Ice (Etruscan Press, 2008), Jennifer Atkinson is the author of two collections of poetry: The Dogwood Tree (University of Alabama Press, 1990), which won the University of Alabama Poetry Prize, and The Drowned City (Northeastern University Press, 2000), winner of the Samuel French Morse Prize. Her poetry and nonfiction can be seen in many leading journals and have been honored with Pushcart Prizes. She taught in Nepal, in Japan, at the University of Iowa, and at Washington University before joining the faculty of George Mason University.