At the beginning, The Oceanography Society (TOS) organizers believed that the time was right for a stand-alone society serving all disciplines of oceanography (Baker, 1988). We also believed that there was a need for a scientifically based publication accessible to all oceanographers, that new arrangements for meetings should be tried, and that oceanographers needed to start making a stronger case for funding for our field. And we wanted to bring all, or as many as possible, of the working oceanographers into the society to build professional bonds.

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