Overview of Operational Ocean Forecasting in the U.S. Navy: Past, Present & Future
By William Burnett , John Harding , and George Heburn

Operational Altimeter Sea Level Products
By G.A. Jacobs , C.N. Barron, D.N. Fox, K.R. Whitmer, S. Klingenberger, D. May , and J.P. Blaha

The Modular Ocean Data Assimilation System
By Daniel N. Fox , Charlie N. Barron , Michael R. Carnes , Martin Booda , Germana Peggion , and John Van Gurley

Navy Real-time Global Modeling Systems
By Robert C. Rhodes, Harley E. Hurlburt, Alan J. Wallcraft , Charlie N. Barron, Paul J. Martin, E. Joseph Metzger, Jay F. Shriver, Dong S. Ko, Ole Martin Smedstad, Scott L. Cross, and A. Birol Kara

Navy Sea Ice Prediction Systems
By Ruth H. Preller, Pamela G. Posey , Wieslaw Maslowski , Donald Stark, and Thomas Thang C. Pham

Global and Regional Wave Modeling Activities
By R.E. Jensen , P.A. Wittmann, and J.D. Dykes

The Integrated Ocean Prediction System (IOPS)
By Richard A. Allard, James Kaihatu, Y. Larry Hsu , and James D. Dykes

Tidal Prediction Using the Advanced Circulation Model (ADCIRC) and a Relocatable PC-based System
By C.A. Blain , R.H. Preller, and A.P. Rivera

The Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS)
By Richard M. Hodur , Xiaodong Hong , James D. Doyle, Julie Pullen, James Cummings , Paul Martin , and Mary Alice Rennick

Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS): Forcing for Ocean Models
By Thomas E. Rosmond, João Teixeira, Melinda Peng , Timothy F. Hogan, and Randal Pauley

Distributed Information Services in Marine Science: MareNet—The Network of Marine Research Institutions and Documents
By Michael Hohlfeld and Jörg-Olaf Wolff

Radiocarbon in Corals: Records of the Carbon Cycle, Surface Circulation and Climate
By Ellen R.M. Druffel

Sciences of the Ocean, Physical and Otherwise
By Warren S. Wooster

The Evolution of Physical Oceanography in the Last Hundred Years
By Walter Munk

Ocean Exploration
By Marcia McNutt

QUARTERDECK • A Model Community
By Richard W. Spinrad

FROM THE PRESIDENT • Events of 11 September and Graduate Education in Oceanography
By James A. Yoder

THE OCEANOGRAPHY CLASSROOM • Are Ph.D. Students Able to Explore Career Paths That Their Advisors Disparage?
By Dean A. McManus

BOOK REVIEW • Biotic Response to Global Change: The Last 145 Million Years
By Patrick M. Holligan

BOOK REVIEW • Seas at the Millennium: An Environmental Evaluation
By David A. Brooks

Ruth H. Preller, Naval Research Laboratory

Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command