The Official Magazine of The Oceanography Society
Volume 25 | Number 3 | September 2012
Special Issue: Antarctic Oceanography in a Changing World
On the Cover: FRONT COVER: The photo of Antarctic Research and Supply Vessel Laurence M. Gould (left) and Research Vessel Icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer (right) was taken during the 2002 austral winter cruise of the Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC) program, near Adelaide Island in the western Antarctic Peninsula. The Southern Ocean winter field program required both ships. The Palmer would put the Gould into a situation such that the vessel would be stuck in the ice for about a week so that the shipboard scientists could carry out process studies, while scientists on the Palmer went on to carry out large-scale synoptic surveys. The ships were together as in this photo for only a few hours. The photographer, Dan Costa, had to walk onto the sea ice to get this vantage point. BACK COVER: Extent of US Antarctic oceanography based on the historical cruise tracks of RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer (red) and ARSV Laurence M. Gould (blue).
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SPECIAL ISSUE FEATURES
FROM THE GUEST EDITORS • Introduction to the Special Issue on Antarctic Oceanography in a Changing World
By
Hugh Ducklow ,
Alejandro Orsi , and
Julia S. Wellner
Circumpolar View of the Southern Ocean from 1962 to 1992
By
Arnold L. Gordon
SIDEBAR • CO2 Transport in Deep Waters Off Wilkes Land
By
Taro Takahashi and
David W. Chipman
The Changing Carbon Cycle in the Southern Ocean
By
Taro Takahashi ,
Colm Sweeney ,
Burke Hales,
David W. Chipman,
Timothy Newberger,
John G. Goddard,
Richard A. Iannuzzi , and
Stewart C. Sutherland
SIDEBAR • Islands of Ice: Influence of Free-Drifting Antarctic Icebergs on Pelagic Marine Ecosystems
By
Maria Vernet ,
Kenneth L. Smith Jr. ,
Adrián O. Cefarelli ,
John J. Helly,
Ronald S. Kaufmann,
Hai Lin,
David G. Long ,
Alison E. Murray ,
Bruce H. Robison,
Henry A. Ruhl,
Timothy J. Shaw ,
Alana D. Sherman,
Janet Sprintall ,
Gordon R. Stephenson Jr. ,
Keith M. Stuart, and
Benjamin S. Twining
ASPIRE: The Amundsen Sea Polynya International Research Expedition
By
Patricia L. Yager,
Robert M. Sherrell ,
Sharon E. Stammerjohn ,
Anne-Carlijn Alderkamp,
Oscar Schofield ,
E. Povl Abrahamsen,
Kevin R. Arrigo,
Stefan Bertilsson,
D. Lollie Garay ,
Raul Guerrero,
Kate E. Lowry,
Per-Olav Moksnes,
Kuria Ndungu ,
Anton F. Post ,
Evan Randall-Goodwin,
Lasse Riemann ,
Silke Severmann,
Sven Thatje,
Gert L. van Dijken, and
Stephanie Wilson
SIDEBAR • Sixty-Four Days of Hydrography and Storms: RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer's 2011 S04P Cruise
By
James H. Swift and
Alejandro H. Orsi
Two Decades of Pelagic Ecology of the Western Antarctic Peninsula
By
Deborah K. Steinberg ,
Douglas G. Martinson , and
Daniel P. Costa
SIDEBAR • The Southern Ocean Observing System
By
Stephen R. Rintoul ,
Michael P. Meredith ,
Oscar Schofield, and
Louise Newman
High-Resolution Underway Upper Ocean and Surface Atmospheric Observations in Drake Passage: Synergistic Measurements for Climate Science
By
Janet Sprintall ,
Teresa K. Chereskin, and
Colm Sweeney
SIDEBAR • SHALDRIL I and II: Drilling from the Research Vessel Icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer
By
John B. Anderson and
Julia S. Wellner
What Lies Beneath? Interdisciplinary Outcomes of the ANDRILL Coulman High Project Site Surveys on the Ross Ice Shelf
By
Frank R. Rack,
Robert (Bob) Zook ,
Richard H. Levy,
Richard Limeburner,
Craig Stewart ,
Michael J.M. Williams ,
Bruce Luyendyk , and
The ANDRILL Coulman High Project Site Survey Team
The Ross Sea in a Sea of Change
By
Walker O. Smith Jr.,
Peter N. Sedwick,
Kevin R. Arrigo ,
David G. Ainley , and
Alejandro H. Orsi
SIDEBAR • Listening to Glaciers: Passive Hydroacoustics Near Marine-Terminating Glaciers
By
Erin C. Pettit,
Jeffrey A. Nystuen , and
Shad O’Neel
Southern Exposure: New Paleoclimate Insights From Southern Ocean and Antarctic Margin Sediments
By
Amelia E. Shevenell and
Steven M. Bohaty
SIDEBAR • Diving for the Sedimentary Record of Multiyear Sea Ice
By
Molly Fritz Miller ,
Samuel S. Bowser, and
Sally E. Walker
SIDEBAR • Letting Penguins Lead: Dynamic Modeling of Penguin Locations Guides Autonomous Robotic Sampling
By
Matthew J. Oliver ,
Mark A. Moline,
Ian Robbins ,
William Fraser ,
Donna Patterson, and
Oscar Schofield
Bioactive Trace Metal Distributions and Biogeochemical Controls in the Southern Ocean
By
Christopher I. Measures ,
Mariko Hatta , and
Maxime M. Grand
SIDEBAR • cDrake: Dynamics and Transport of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in Drake Passage
By
Teresa K. Chereskin,
Kathleen A. Donohue, and
D. Randolph Watts
Seeing the Seafloor: Discoveries of the RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer Multibeam Systems
By
Frank O. Nitsche ,
Julia S. Wellner ,
Philip Bart ,
Suzanne O’Hara , and
Kathleen Gavahan
Antarctic Sea Ice—A Polar Opposite?
By
Ted Maksym,
Sharon E. Stammerjohn,
Stephen Ackley, and
Rob Massom
SIDEBAR • Radiocarbon Measurements in the Indian Ocean Aboard RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer
By
Robert M. Key and
Ann McNichol
The Amundsen Sea and the Antarctic Ice Sheet
By
Stan Jacobs ,
Adrian Jenkins,
Hartmut Hellmer ,
Claudia Giulivi ,
Frank Nitsche,
Bruce Huber , and
Raul Guerrero
SIDEBAR • Improving the Quality and Accessibility of Current Profile Measurements in the Southern Ocean
By
Eric Firing ,
Julia M. Hummon, and
Teresa K. Chereskin
Glacial Intensification During the Neogene: A Review of Seismic Stratigraphic Evidence from the Ross Sea, Antarctica, Continental Shelf
By
Philip J. Bart and
Laura De Santis
SIDEBAR • Sub-Antarctic and High Antarctic Notothenioid Fishes: Ecology and Adaptational Biology Revealed by the ICEFISH 2004 Cruise of RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer
By
H. William Detrich III ,
Bradley A. Buckley,
Daniel F. Doolittle,
Christopher D. Jones, and
Susanne J. Lockhart
Pelagic-Benthic Coupling, Food Banks, and Climate Change on the West Antarctic Peninsula Shelf
By
Craig R. Smith ,
David J. DeMaster,
Carrie J. Thomas ,
Pavica Sršen ,
Laura Grange ,
Victor Evrard , and
Fabio DeLeo
SIDEBAR • Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Exploration of the Ocean Cavity Beneath an Antarctic Ice Shelf
By
Adrian Jenkins ,
Pierre Dutrieux,
Stan Jacobs,
Steve McPhail,
James Perrett,
Andy Webb, and
Dave White
A New US Polar Research Vessel for the Twenty-First Century
By
Robert B. Dunbar,
Jon Alberts ,
Carin Ashjian,
Vernon Asper ,
Dale Chayes,
Eugene Domack,
Hugh Ducklow ,
Bruce Huber,
Lawrence Lawver,
Daniel Oliver ,
Doug Russell ,
Craig R. Smith, and
Maria Vernet
REGULAR ISSUE FEATURES
Recent Arctic Climate Change and Its Remote Forcing of Northwest Atlantic Shelf Ecosystems
By
Charles H. Greene,
Bruce C. Monger ,
Louise P. McGarry,
Matthew D. Connelly ,
Neesha R. Schnepf ,
Andrew J. Pershing,
Igor M. Belkin ,
Paula S. Fratantoni ,
David G. Mountain,
Robert S. Pickart ,
Rubao Ji ,
James J. Bisagni ,
Changsheng Chen ,
Sirpa M.A. Hakkinen ,
Dale B. Haidvogel ,
Jia Wang ,
Erica Head ,
Peter Smith , and
Alessandra Conversi
Exploration of the Deep-Sea Fauna of Papua New Guinea
By
Eric Pante,
Laure Corbari ,
Justine Thubaut ,
Tin-Yam Chan ,
Ralph Mana ,
Marie-Catherine Boisselier ,
Philippe Bouchet , and
Sarah Samadi
DEPARTMENTS
QUARTERDECK • The Admiral: James D. Watkins, USN Ret.
By
Richard W. Spinrad
FROM THE PRESIDENT • Improving The Oceanography Society
By
Mike Roman
THE OCEANOGRAPHY CLASSROOM • Starting Thoughts…
By
Tom Garrison
CAREER PROFILES • Options and Insights
Career profiles—Options and insights. 2012. Oceanography 25(3):228–230.
Special Issue Guest Editors
Hugh Ducklow, Marine Biological Laboratory
Alejandro H. Orsi, Texas A&M University
Julia S. Wellner, University of Houston
Sponsors
Production of this issue of Oceanography was supported by the US National Science Foundation.