USEFUL REFERENCES

References marked by an asterisk are available through the electronic reserve. Most others are reserved as hard copies.

Beebe, W. 1924. Galapagos, World's End. G. P. Putnam's and Sons.

Boyce, B. 2004. A Traveler's Guide to the Galapagos Islands, 4th ed. Hunter Publishing.

Brown, J., A. Colling, D. Park, J. Phillips, D. Rothery and J. Wright. 1991. The Galapagos: Islands of variety and change, p. 160215. In: G. Bearman [ed.], Case Studies in Oceanography and Marine Affairs. Pergamon Press.

(On electronic reserve, this is listed as "Chapter 5 The Galapagos: Islands of Variety Parts 1, 2 and 3")

*Chavez, F. P. and R. C. Brusca. 1991. The Galapagos Islands and their relation to oceanographic processes in the tropical Pacific, p. 933. In M. James [ed.], Galapagos Marine Invertebrates. Plenum Press.

*Coale, K. H., K. S. Johnson, S. E. Fitzwater, S. P. G. Blain, T. P. Stanton and T. L. Coley. 1998. IRONEX-I, an in situ iron enrichment experiment: Experimental design, implementation and results. Deep-Sea Res. II 45: 919945.

(This entire issue of Deep-Sea Res. is about IRONEX around the Galapagos; the journal in its entirety is on [paper] reserve.)

*Corliss, J. B. and 10 other authors. 1979. Submarine thermal springs on the Galapagos Rift. Science 203: 10731083.

Darwin, C. 1839. The Voyage of the Beagle.

(Multiple editions and publishers are on paper reserve; Chapter 17 is about the Galapagos Islands.)

Darwin Research Station. 2004. Annual Report of Activities. Darwin Foundation.

(An active link is found on the class web site.)

*Darwin Research Station. 1998. A special report from the Darwin Research Station: 1997 El Nino in Galapagos. Darwin Foundation.

*De Roy, T. 1998. Galapagos in the 21st century, p. 148156. In T. De Roy, Galapagos: Islands Born of Fire. Ediciones Libri Mundi.

*Feldman, G., D. Clark and D. Halpern. 1984. Satellite color observations of the phytoplankton distribution in the eastern equatorial Pacific during the 19821983 El Nino. Science 226: 10691071.

*Feldman, G. 1986. Patterns of phytoplankton production around the Galapagos Islands, p. 77106. In: M. J. Bowman, C. M. Yentsch and W. T. Peterson [eds.], Tidal Mixing and Plankton Dynamics. Springer-Verlag.

*Figueroa, D. and K. Hoefel. 2005. The distribution and community structure of zooplankton in the Galapagos Islands: Preliminary Report for Galapagos National Park. Unpublished.

*Houvenaghel, G. T. 1978. Oceanographic conditions in the Galapagos Archipelago and their relationships with life on the islands, p. 181200. In: R. Boje and M. Tomczak [eds.], Upwelling Ecosystems. Springer-Verlag.

Houvenaghel, G. T. 1984. Oceanographic setting of the Galapagos Islands, p. 4354. In: R. Perry [ed.], Key Environments: Galapagos. Pergamon Press.

Jackson, M. 1993. Galapagos: A Natural History, 2nd edition. University of Calgary Press.

*Kaiser, J. 2001. Galapagos takes aim at alien invaders. Science 293: 590592.

*Martin, J. H. and 43 authors. 1994. Testing the iron hypothesis in ecosystems of the equatorial Pacific ocean. Nature 371: 123129.

*Palacios, D. M. 2002. Factors influencing the island-mass effect of the Galapagos Archipelago. Geophys. Res. Lett. 29: 2134, doi: 10.1029/2002GL016232.

Palacios, D. M. 2004. Seasonal patterns of sea-surface temperature and ocean color around the Galapagos: regional and local influences. Deep-Sea Res II 51: 4357.

Ryan, P. R. (ed.). 1987. The Galapagos Marine Resources Reserve. Oceanus 30: 1104.

(The entire journal is on [paper] reserve.)

*Sakamoto, C. M., F. J. Millero, W. Yao, G. E. Friederich and F. P. Chavez. 1998. Surface seawater distributions of inorganic carbon and nutrients around the Galapagos Islands: Results from the Plumex experiment using automated chemical mapping. Deep-Sea Res. II 45: 10551071.

Sibert, J. 1971. Some oceanographic observations in the Galapagos Islands. American Zoologist 11: 405408.

Weiner, J. 1995. The Beak of the Finch, 1st edition. Random House.

(On paper reserve)

*Wikelski, M. and C. Thom. 2000. Marine iguanas shrink to survive El Nino. Nature 403: 37.

OTHER USEFUL RESOURCES

(All are accessible through UW Libraries.)

Two articles pertinent to phytoplankton and zooplankton in the Galapagos can be found in Coastal Upwelling, edited by F. A. Richards.

To get a sense of how to plan a large interdisciplinary project, see Martin, J. and P. Chisholm (eds.) US JGOFS Planning Report No. 15. US JGOFS Planning Office, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, 1992.

Marine Pollution Bulletin 47(78) is dedicated to the 2001 Jessica Oil Spill in the Galapagos. The entire issue is available on-line.

A PMEL researcher named William Kessler has done a great deal of physical oceanographic work in the Equatorial Pacific; check out his web-site at and in particular check out his publications: of which the most pertinent is probably

(Active links will be posted on the web page.)