Overview of Recent, Ongoing, and Future Investigations on the Dynamics and Evolution of European Margins
By Jürgen Mienert , Philip P.E. Weaver, Serge Berné, Wolf Christian Dullo, Dan Evans, André Freiwald , Jean-Pierre Henriet , B.B. Joergensen, Gilles Lericolais, Vasilios Lykousis, John Parkes, Fabio Trincardi, and Graham Westbrook

Mediterranean Prodelta Systems: Natural Evolution and Human Impact Investigated by EURODELTA
By Fabio Trincardi , Antonio Cattaneo, and Annamaria Correggiari

The PASTA Project: Investigation of Po and Apennine Sediment Transport and Accumulation
By Charles A. Nittrouer, Stefano Miserocchi , and Fabio Trincardi

Sediment Dynamics in the Adriatic Sea Investigated with Coupled Models
By Christopher R. Sherwood , Jeffrey W. Book, Sandro Carniel , Luigi Cavaleri , Jacopo Chiggiato, Himangshu Das, James D. Doyle, Courtney K. Harris, Alan W. Niedoroda , Henry Perkins , Pierre-Marie Poulain, Julie Pullen, Christopher W. Reed, Aniello Russo, Mauro Sclavo, Richard P. Signell, Peter Traykovski , and John C. Warner

The Impact of Humans on Strata Formation Along Mediterranean Margins
By Camino Liquete, Miquel Canals, Pedro Arnau , Roger Urgeles, and Xavier Durrieu de Madron

The Role of Canyons on Strata Formation
By Miquel Canals, Jose Luis Casamor, Galderic Lastras , André Monaco, Juan Acosta, Serge Berné, Benoît Loubrieu, Philip P.E. Weaver, Anthony Grehan, and Bernard Dennielou

The Impact of Quaternary Global Changes on Strata Formation: Exploration of the Shelf Edge in the Northwest Mediterranean Sea
By Serge Berné, Marina Rabineau, Jose Abel Flores, and Francisco Javier Sierro

Clinoform Generation on Mediterranean Margins
By Antonio Cattaneo, Fabio Trincardi , Leonardo Langone, Alessandra Asioli , and Pere Puig

Modeling Continental Shelf Formation in the Adriatic Sea and Elsewhere
By Lincoln Pratson, John Swenson , Albert Kettner , Juan Fedele, George Postma, Alan W. Niedoroda , Carl Friedrichs, James P.M. Syvitski , Chris Paola , Mike Steckler, Eric Hutton , Christopher W. Reed , M. Van Dijk , and Himangshu Das

Hotspot Ecosystem Research on Europe's Deep-Ocean Margins
By Philip P.E. Weaver, David S.M. Billett , Antje Boetius, Roberto Danovaro, André Freiwald , and Myriam Sibuet

Imaging the Seascapes of the Mediterranean
By David Amblàs, Miquel Canals, Galderic Lastras, Serge Berné , and Benoît Loubrieu

EUROpean Deep Ocean Margins (EuroDOM): A New Training-Through-Research Frontier
By Ben De Mol , Veerle Huvenne, Stefan Bünz , Tiago Alves, Miquel Canals , and Vikki Gunn

Satellites Reveal the Influence of Equatorial Currents and Tropical Instability Waves on the Drift of the Kon-Tiki in the Pacific
By Richard Legeckis , Christopher W. Brown, Fabrice Bonjean, and Eric S. Johnson

UNOLS Establishes SCOAR to Promote Research Aircraft Facilities for U.S. Ocean Sciences
By John M. Bane, Robert Bluth, Charles Flagg , Carl A. Friehe, Haflidi Jonsson, W. Kendall Melville , Mike Prince , and Daniel Riemer

Abrupt Climate Changes: Oceans, Ice, and Us
By Richard B. Alley

QUARTERDECK • Visual Impact
By Ellen S. Kappel

FROM THE PRESIDENT • The Next Steps
By Larry Clark

COMMENTARY • Observation, Hypothesis-Testing, and Discovery in Oceanography
By Tom Anderson

FROM THE GUEST EDITORS • Introduction to this Special Issue on Strata Formation on European Margins: A Tribute to EU-NA Cooperation in Marine Geology
By James P.M. Syvitski , Philip P.E. Weaver, Serge Berné, Charles A. Nittrouer, Fabio Trincardi , and Miquel Canals

MEETING REPORT • Eighth International Conference on Paleoceanography
By Francis E. Grousset , Peggy Delaney , Harry Elderfield, Kay-Christian Emeis, Gerald Haug , Larry C. Peterson, Thomas Stocker, and Pinxian Wang

THE OCEANOGRAPHY CLASSROOM • Why We Have to Teach Scientific Ethics in the Oceanography Classroom
By Matthias Tomczak and

AWARDS • The Jerlov Award: Presented to Howard R. Gordon, October 29, 2004
Awards—The Jerlov Award: Presented to Howard R. Gordon, October 29, 2004. 2004. Oceanography 17(4):210–211.

BOOK REVIEW • The Machine in Neptune's Garden: Historical Perspectives on Technology and the Marine Environment
By John Knauss

BOOK REVIEW • Biogeochemistry of Marine Systems
By Adina Paytan

BOOK REVIEW • Frozen Oceans: The Floating World of Pack Ice
By Harold Welch

BOOK REVIEW • The Sea's Enthrall: Memoirs of an Oceanographer
By David W. Townsend

James P.M. Syvitski, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Philip P.E. Weaver, Southampton Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom
Serge Berné, Institut français de recherche pour l’exploitation de la mer (IFREMER), France
Charles A. Nittrouer, School of Oceanography, University of Washington, USA
Fabio Trincardi, Istituto di Scienze Marine-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISMAR-CNR), Italy
Miquel Canals, GRC Geociències Marines, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

We would like to thank the U.S. Office of Naval Research and the European Commission for sponsoring this issue of the magazine.