Hurricane Prediction: A Century of Advances
By Nan D. Walker, Alaric Haag , Shreekanth Balasubramanian , Robert Leben, Ivor van Heerden, Paul Kemp, and Hassan Mashriqui

BOX • Hurricane Katrina and Oil Spills: Impact on Coastal and Ocean Environments
By John C. Pine

Cyclones, Tsunamis, and Human Health: The Key Role of Preparedness
By Mark E. Keim

BOX • Resilient Ecosystems, Healthy Communities: Human Health and Sustainable Ecosystems After the December 2004 Tsunami
By Fiona Miller, Frank Thomalla, Tom Downing , and Matthew Chadwick

Climate Change, Oceans, and Human Health
By Jonathan A. Patz, Sarah H. Olson, and Amber L. Gray

BOX • Saharan Dust Impacts and Climate Change
By Joseph M. Prospero

Human Development and Resource Use in the Coastal Zone: Influences on Human Health
By Robert E. Bowen, Anamarija Frankic, and Mary E. Davis

BOX • Croatia
By Robert E. Bowen, Anamarija Frankic , and Mary E. Davis

Microbes, Monitoring, and Human Health
By Alfred P. Dufour and Larry J. Wymer

BOX • Cholera
By Edward Laws

Food from the Oceans and Human Health: Balancing Risks and Benefits
By Éric Dewailly and Anthony Knap

BOX • Canadian Inuit and the Arctic Dilemma
By Éric Dewailly

Harmful Algal Blooms at the Interface Between Coastal Oceanography and Human Health
By Lorraine C. Backer and Dennis J. McGillicuddy, Jr.

BOX • Aerosolized Florida Red Tide Toxins and Human Health Effects
By William M. Abraham and Daniel G. Baden

Marine Pharmaceuticals: Past, Present, and Future
By William Fenical

BOX • High Throughput Cultivation for Isolation of Novel Marine Microorganisms
By Gerardo Toledo, Wayne Green, Ricardo A. Gonzalez, Leif Christoffersen, Mircea Podar, Hwai W. Chang, Thomas Hemscheidt, Henry G. Trapido-Rosenthal , Jay M. Short, Robert R. Bidigare, and Eric J. Mathur

Benefits from the Sea: Sentinel Species and Animal Models of Human Health
By Martin Grosell and Patrick J. Walsh

BOX • Marine Mammals as Sentinel Species for Oceans and Human Health
By Gregory D. Bossart

Disasters, Death, and Destruction— Making Sense of Recent Calamities
By Roger A. Pielke, Jr.

QUARTERDECK • Life and Health on the Edge
By Don Rice

FROM THE PRESIDENT • Do You Remember Where You Were When...?
By Larry Clark

RIPPLE MARKS • Disappearance of the Magical Golden Frog | Lethal Marine Snow | Bluer Than Blue | Smile, You're on VENUS Camera
By Cheryl Lyn Dybas

COMMENTARY • Grand Challenges for Ocean Sciences Research
By Alan Brandt

FROM THE GUEST EDITORS • Overview of the Oceans and Human Health Special Issue
By Lora E. Fleming and Edward Laws

THE OCEANOGRAPHY CLASSROOM • How Good Are Your Data?
By Matthias Tomczak

HANDS-ON OCEANOGRAPHY • Settling Particles in Aquatic Environments: Low Reynolds Numbers
By Emmanuel Boss , Lee Karp-Boss , and Peter A. Jumars

BOOK REVIEW • Aglow in the Dark: The Revolutionary Science of Biofluorescence
By Mikhail V. Matz

BOOK REVIEW • Dynamics of Marine Ecosystems: Biological-Physical Interactions in the Oceans (Third Edition)
By Andrew J. Pershing

Lora E. Fleming, University of Miami School of Medicine and University of Miami
Edward Laws, Louisiana Stete University and University of Hawaii

We would like to thank the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences for sponsoring this issue of the magazine.