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Introduction

How the Oceanographic Community Created a National Oceanographic Partnership Program
By J.D. Watkins, T.R. Schaff, and R.W. Spinrad

Ten Years of NOPP Accomplishments
By E.J. Lindstrom, J.J. Kendall Jr., and B. Chicoski

Excellence in Partnering Award Winners

The Bridge Web Site: Growing and Sustaining Partnerships Between Ocean Science and Education
By V.P. Clark, L.A. Lawrence, C. Petrone, and L. Larkin

The Argo Program: Observing the Global Ocean with Profiling Floats
By D. Roemmich, G.C. Johnson, S. Riser, R. Davis, J. Gilson, W.B. Owens, S.L. Garzoli, C. Schmid, and M. Ignaszewski

Economic Considerations in the Design of Ocean Observing Systems
By H.L. Kite-Powell

Analysis of Deepwater Shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico: Artificial Reef Effect of Six World War II Shipwrecks
By R.A. Church, D.J. Warren, and J.B. Irion

US GODAE: Global Ocean Prediction with the HYbrid Coordinate
Ocean Model (HYCOM)
By E.P. Chassignet, H.E. Hurlburt, E.J. Metzger, O.M. Smedstad, J.A. Cummings, G.R. Halliwell, R. Bleck, R. Baraille, A.J. Wallcraft, C. Lozano, H.L. Tolman, A. Srinivasan, S. Hankin, P. Cornillon, R. Weisberg, A. Barth, R. He, F. Werner, and J. Wilkin

MISST: The Multi-Sensor Improved Sea Surface Temperature Project
By C.L. Gentemann, P.J. Minnett, J. Sienkiewicz, M. DeMaria, J. Cummings, Y. Jin, J.D. Doyle, L. Gramer, C.N. Barron, K.S. Casey, and C.J. Donlon

Data/Information/Product Development

The Global General Circulation of the Ocean Estimated by
the ECCO-Consortium
By C. Wunsch, P. Heimbach, R.M. Ponte, I. Fukumori, and the ECCO-GODAE Consortium Members

OBIS-SEAMAP: The World Data Center for Marine Mammal, Sea Bird,
and Sea Turtle Distributions
By P.N. Halpin, A.J. Read, E. Fujioka, B.D. Best, B. Donnelly, L.J. Hazen, C. Kot, K. Urian, E. LaBrecque, A. Dimatteo, J. Cleary, C. Good, L.B. Crowder, and K.D. Hyrenbach

NVODS and the Development of OPeNDAP
By P. Cornillon, J. Adams, M.B. Blumenthal, E. Chassignet, E. Davis, S. Hankin, J. Kinter, R. Mendelssohn, J.T. Potemra, A. Srinivasan, and J. Sirott

Ocean Observing Platforms and Sensors

Growing a Distributed Ocean Observatory: Our View from the COOL Room
By S. Glenn and O. Schofield

The Nurturing of Seagliders by the National Oceanographic Partnership Program
By C.C. Eriksen and M.J. Perry

Remote Detection of Marine Microbes, Small Invertebrates, Harmful Algae, and Biotoxins using the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP)
By C. Scholin, G. Doucette, S. Jensen, B. Roman, D. Pargett, R. Marin III, C. Preston, W. Jones, J. Feldman, C. Everlove, A. Harris, N. Alvarado, E. Massion, J. Birch, D. Greenfield, R. Vrijenhoek, C. Mikulski, and K. Jones

The NOPP O-SCOPE and MOSEAN Projects: Advanced Sensing for Ocean Observing Systems
By T. Dickey, N. Bates, R.H. Byrne, G. Chang, F.P. Chavez, R.A. Feely, A.K. Hanson, D.M. Karl, D. Manov, C. Moore, C.L. Sabine, and R. Wanninkhof

Autonomous Observations of the Ocean Biological Carbon Pump
By J.K.B. Bishop

Operational Use and Impact of Satellite Remotely Sensed Ocean Surface Vector Winds in the Marine Warning and Forecasting Environment
By P.S. Chang, Z. Jelenak, J.M. Sienkiewicz, R. Knabb, M.J. Brennan, D.G. Long, and M. Freeberg

Conclusion

The National Oceanographic Partnership Program: A Decade of Impacts on Oceanography
By C.J. Decker and C. Reed

REGULAR ISSUE FEATURE

Kayaking with Bernoulli
By B. Baschek and D.M. Farmer

BREAKING WAVES

Wave Navigation in The Marshall Islands: Comparing Indigenous and Western Scientific Knowledge of the Ocean
By J. Genz, J. Aucan, M. Merrifield, B. Finney, K. Joel, and A. Kelen

DEPARTMENTS

QUARTERDECK | Common Graphics Misconceptions (1.3 MB pdf)
By E.S. Kappel

FROM THE PRESIDENT | New Organizing Principle for Ocean Sciences (200 KB pdf)
By C. Thoroughgood

COMMENTARY | Enhancing Ocean Literacy Using Real-Time Data (108 KB pdf)
By L.G. Adams and G. Matsumoto

RIPPLE MARKS—THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY | “Witch Tree” Embodies Spirit of Lake Superior • No Safe Harbor for “Living Fossil” Fish Along Tanzania’s Coast • Total Eclipse of the Art • The Unexpected Rainmakers: Forests—Atmospheric Moisture Pumps—May Be Driving Rainfall (608 KB pdf)
By C.L. Dybas

TENTH ANNUAL ROGER REVELLE COMMEMORATIVE LECTURE | The Once and Future Ocean (188 KB pdf)
By P.G. Falkowski

HANDS-ON OCEANOGRAPHY | A Classroom Activity Using Satellite Sea Surface Temperatures to Predict Coral Bleaching (428 KB pdf)
By B.-A. Parker, T. R.L. Christensen, S.F. Heron, J.A. Morgan, and C.M. Eakin
- Worksheet (3 MB pdf)
- Worksheet Answers (720 KB pdf)

THE OCEANOGRAPHY CLASSROOM | Working Away From Home–The Longer-term Option (172 KB pdf)
By S. Boxall

REVIEWS | Chemical Oceanography and the Marine Carbon Cycle • Strait Through The Ice (172 KB pdf)