• Preface • Beginnings • Pleasant Bay (1950s) • Expanding Horizons (1954 –1959) • Adolescent Senescence (1960–1965)
• College • Observing the Molecular Wars:My Early College Years (1965–1967) • The Atlantis II (1967) • The Simian Seminars (1967–1970) • The Undergraduate Years (1967–1970) • Desecheo (1969) • Getting Started • At Sea and Wet Behind the Ears:Writing and Graduate School (1970–1971) • Cape Cod or Caracas? Think Global,Write Local! (1970–1980) • Shallow Waters (1979–1980) • Confessions of a Horseshoe Crab Farmer (1980–1982) • Woods Hole (1981–1990) • Writing Naturally • Storm Surge • Hard Times • A Year in the Notch: Using Science to Write About Nature (1998–1999)
• Crab Wars: Investigative Reporting (2000–2001) • Vaccine Chronicles: The Book That Never Got Published (2001–2002) • The House on Ipswich Marsh (2003–2004)