Happy Summer! Save for on-going water quality monitoring, the LRWP is taking a break from events and meetings through August and the long hot summer days. This will give us plenty of time to dig into our water themed summer reading list inspired by Popular Science and the Strand bookstore. Happy reading – see you in September!

CHANGING WATERS

• Tides and the Ocean: Water’s Movement Around the World, from Waves to Whirlpools by William Thomson
• The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
• The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell

WATER TRAVEL, ADVENTURE and SPORT

• Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer by Lynne Cox
• Sea Change by Sylvia Earle
• The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
• In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick

KIDS BOOKS

• Over and Under the Pond by Kate Messner
• Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean’s Most Fearless Scientist by Jess Keating

WATER SCIENCE

• The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
• Shark Drunk-the art of catching a large shark from a tiny rubber dinghy in a big ocean by Morten Strøksnes
• Spying on Whales by Nick Pyenson
• Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods by Danna Staaf
• The Seabird’s Cry: The lives and loves of the planet’s great ocean voyagers by Adam Nicolson