The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes, by Lynne Heasley (with illustrations and cover art by Glenn Wolff), received one of three Grand Prizes for Nonfiction in the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and first place in the categories of education/academic and animals/pets. The book was also a 2022 Nautilus Silver Award winner for Lyric Prose. Awards judge Martha Kennedy commended Heasley for environmental storytelling that “is at once scientific and lyrical, humorous and deathly serious.”