[SEMCO] Marine Mammal Guide Wins Award

[Sheri D. Derosa]

The National Outdoor Book Awards (NOBA), the outdoor world's largest and
most prestigious book award program, recently awarded Rhode Island Sea
Grant's "Guide to Marine Mammals & Turtles of the U.S. Atlantic & Gulf
of Mexico" as best in the "Nature Guidebook" category.  NOBA is a
non-profit educational program sponsored by the Association of Outdoor
Recreation and Education and Idaho State University.  For more
information, visit http://www.isu.edu/outdoor/bookpol.htm.

NOBA's review reads: " This is an extraordinarily well done and
easy-to-use guidebook that will help you identify marine mammals while
traveling the coastal waters of the east. Printed on water-resistant
paper, it covers whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals, manatee and
turtles.  It's truly a model guidebook.  Each and every detail has been
designed with user convenience in mind, from its organization and
lay-out, to its photographs and map graphics, to its carefully
researched and understandable writing."

A limited supply of the guidebooks (which make great holiday gifts!) are
available from WHOI Sea Grant for $25.00 each.  Checks, made payable to
"WHOI," should be sent to:

WHOI Sea Grant Program
193 Oyster Pond Road, MS #2
Woods Hole, MA 02543-1525