Oceanography Editor, Rick Spinrad, interviewed the U.S. Chief of Naval Research, Rear Admiral Paul G. Gaffney, Jr., for this special issue, which was sponsored by the U.S. Office of Naval Research. Admiral Gaffney, himself an oceanographer, has also commanded the U.S. Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command in Mississippi and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.

Spinrad, R.W. 1998. Interview with the Chief of Naval Research. Oceanography 11(2):4–9, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.1998.01.

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