How The Oceanography Society Came To Be: Its Background and Its Future
By D. James Baker

The Challenger Society
By David Pugh

Oceanography Magazine: Form and Function
By David A. Brooks

Ocean Acoustic Tomography
By Walter Munk and Peter F. Worcester

QUARTERDECK • Welcome Aboard!
By David A. Brooks

REVIEW AND COMMENT • A Post-Graduate View of Undergraduate Programs in Oceanography
By Leslie K. Rosenfeld

REVIEW AND COMMENT • Dissolved Organic Matter in the Ocean: Comments on a Controversy
By P.M. Williams and E.R.M. Druffel

REVIEW AND COMMENT • Satellite Ocean Color—Status Report 
By James A. Yoder, Wayne E. Esaias, Gene C. Feldman, and Charles R. McClain

REVIEW AND COMMENT • The Oceanography Society and Its Academic Parallel
By Dale F. Leipper

REVIEW AND COMMENT • Optical Oceanography: The State of the Science
By Richard W. Spinrad

NEWS AND INFORMATION • Ocean Sciences Directorate of the Office of Naval Research
By Melbourne Briscoe and Leonard Johnson

NEWS AND INFORMATION • First Draft of WOCE Plan Under Review
By Davis Mayes

MEETING REPORT • The IOC Executive Council Meeting, Paris, March 1988
By D. James Baker

MEETING REPORT • The Coastal Physical Oceanography Program (CoPo)
By Kenneth W. Brink

MEETING REPORT • Workshop on Atmospheric Forcing of Ocean Circulation
By James R. Scoggins

MEETING REPORT • Ocean Optics IX Conference
By Richard W. Spinrad

BOOK REVIEW • Georges Bank
By David A. Brooks

LETTERS • LETTERS
Letters. 1988. Oceanography 1(1):32.

STUDENTIA • The Oceanography Graduate Council at Texas A&M University
By Ann Jochens and Greg Smith

IN MEMORY OF • Rueben Lasker (1930–1988); Paul M. Fye (1913–1988)
Omega. 1988. Oceanography 1(1):33.

NEWS AND INFORMATION • Logo Contest
By David A. Brooks

NEWS AND INFORMATION • Status Report of NASA's Oceanographic Activities
By W. Stanley Wilson