The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS): An On-line, Worldwide Atlas for Accessing, Modeling and Mapping Marine Biological Data in a Multidimensional Geographic Context
By J. Frederick Grassle

Glossary of Terms
Glossary of Terms. 2000. Oceanography 13(3):8–9.

Harnessing Museum Resources for the Census of Marine Life: The FISHNET Project
By David Vieglais, E.O. Wiley , C. Richard Robins , and A. Townsend Peterson

CephBase: Testing Ideas for Cephalopod and Other Species-Level Databases
By James W. Wood , Catriona L. Day , Phillip Lee, and Ronald K. O’Dor

Where Are All the Data?
By Gordon Paterson, Geoff Boxshall , Neil Thomson, and Charles Hussey

Development of a Dynamic Biogeographic Information System for the Gulf of Maine
By V.M. Tsontos and D.A. Kiefer

Planning for OBIS: Examining Relationships with Existing National and International Biodiversity Information Systems
By Mark Fornwall

H-OBIS: A Historical Dimension to the Ocean Biogeographical Information System
By David J. Starkey, Poul Holm , Tim Smith, Robert Francis, and Helen Rozwadowski

The Pacific Ocean and Global OBIS: A New Zealand Perspective
By Dennis P. Gordon

Developing Species Information Systems: The European Register of Marine Species (ERMS)
By Mark J. Costello

The Synthesis of Dynamic and Historical Data on Marine Populations and Communities: Putting Dynamics Into the Ocean Biogeographical Information System (OBIS)
By Ransom A. Myers

Biological Data and Metadata Initiatives at CSIRO Marine Research, Australia, With Implications for the Design of OBIS
By Tony Rees and Kim Finney

Electronic Atlas of Sea Anemones: An OBIS Pilot Project
By Daphne G. Fautin

World-wide Ocean Optics Database (WOOD)
By Jeffrey H. Smart

MARBID: NOAA/NMSF's (US) Marine Biodiversity Database
By M.F. Mickevich and Bruce B. Collette

Opportunities and Challenges for Mexico-U.S. Cooperation in Ocean Sciences
By Agustín Ayala-Castañares and Robert A. Knox

Geological Perturbations and Consequences of Extreme and Unexpected Phenomena in the Ocean
By James P.M. Syvitski

Impact of Extreme River Events on the Coastal Ocean
By Jasim Imran and James P.M. Syvitski

A Perfect Storm: Formation and Potential for Preservation of Storm Beds on the Continental Shelf
By Patricia Wiberg

Icebergs and Iceberg Rafted Detritus (IRD) in the North Atlantic: Facts and Assumptions
By John T. Andrews

On the Dynamics of Subaqueous Debris Flows
By Anders Elverhøi , Carl B. Harbitz, Panagiotis Dimakis, David Mohrig, Jeff Marl , and Gary Parker

QUARTERDECK • QUARTERDECK
By Richard W. Spinrad

FROM THE PRESIDENT • A New Term Starts
By James A. Yoder

THE OCEANOGRAPHY CLASSROOM • Let's Begin With Some Questions
By Dean A. McManus

BOOK REVIEW • The Restless Sea: Exploring the World Beneath the Waves
By Dean A. McManus

BOOK REVIEW • The History of American Deep Submersible Operations
By Hal Palmer

J. Frederick Grassle, Rutgers University

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation