Contains reprints of articles written on algae and marine algae published in Virginia Journal of Science, Journal of Phycology, Israel Journal of Botany, and other scientific journals. Also included are several chapters for books and scholarly papers.

Most of the articles, chapters, and scholarly papers were written by Ott; some were co-authored with Milton R. Sommerfeld, Joseph Seckbach, R. Ikan, Daniel E. Wujek, and others.