WSU Beach Watchers is a great resource for beginners.
It covers the most common seaweeds, sea grasses, shoreline plants, and
sea critters in the Salish Sea with good photographs and brief descriptions.
Seaweeds of Alaska has exhaustive coverage of Alaska and includes most of the species
found in the Pacific Northwest. The
photographs are excellent. Accounts are
searchable by both common and scientific name, and include habitat and
distribution.
Algaebase is a global seaweed database design for
Phycologists (people that study seaweed), especially those concerned with
taxonomy. Course level (by country)
distribution maps included with some accounts.
Seaweeds of Alaska by Mandy Linderberg and
Sandra Lindstrom include all the common seaweeds in the Pacific Northwest. The color photographs show the parts needed
for ID.
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Seashore
Life on the Northern Pacific Coast by Eugene Kozloff
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Marine
Life of the Pacific Northwest by Andy Lamb and Bernard Hanby has spectacular photos of all sorts of
sea critters and beach life. Expensive
but worthwhile to the serious beachcomber and maritime forager.
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