How the Oceanographic Community Created a National Oceanographic Partnership Program
By James D. Watkins, Terrence R. Schaff , and Richard W. Spinrad

Ten Years of NOPP Accomplishments
By Eric J. Lindstrom , James J. Kendall Jr., and Benjamin Chicoski

The Bridge Web Site: Growing and Sustaining Partnerships Between Ocean Science and Education
By Vicki Price Clark , Lisa Ayers Lawrence, Christopher Petrone, and Lee Larkin

The Argo Program: Observing the Global Ocean with Profiling Floats
By Dean Roemmich, Gregory C. Johnson, Stephen Riser, Russ Davis , John Gilson, W. Brechner Owens , Silvia L. Garzoli , Claudia Schmid , and Mark Ignaszewski

Economic Considerations in the Design of Ocean Observing Systems
By Hauke L. Kite-Powell

Analysis of Deepwater Shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico: Artificial Reef Effect of Six World War II Shipwrecks
By Robert A. Church , Daniel J. Warren , and Jack B. Irion

US GODAE: Global Ocean Prediction with the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM)
By Eric P. Chassignet, Harley E. Hurlburt, E. Joseph Metzger, Ole Martin Smedstad, James A. Cummings, George R. Halliwell , Rainer Bleck , Remy Baraille, Alan J. Wallcraft, Carlos Lozano , Hendrik L. Tolman, Ashwanth Srinivasan, Steve Hankin , Peter Cornillon, Robert Weisberg , Alexander Barth , Ruoying He, Francisco Werner , and John Wilkin

MISST: The Multi-Sensor Improved Sea Surface Temperature Project
By Chelle L. Gentemann , Peter J. Minnett , Joseph Sienkiewicz, Mark DeMaria , James Cummings, Yi Jin , James D. Doyle, Lew Gramer, Charlie N. Barron, Kenneth S. Casey , and Craig J. Donlon

The Global General Circulation of the Ocean Estimated by the ECCO-Consortium
By Carl Wunsch , Patrick Heimbach, Rui M. Ponte , Ichiro Fukumori , and The ECCO-GODAE Consortium Members

OBIS-SEAMAP: The World Data Center for Marine Mammal, Sea Bird, and Sea Turtle Distributions
By Patrick N. Halpin, Andrew J. Read , Ei Fujioka , Ben D. Best , Ben Donnelly, Lucie J. Hazen, Connie Kot, Kim Urian , Erin LaBrecque, Andrew Dimatteo , Jesse Cleary , Caroline Good , Larry B. Crowder, and K. David Hyrenbach

NVODS and the Development of OPeNDAP
By Peter Cornillon, Jennifer Adams , M. Benno Blumenthal , Eric Chassignet , Ethan Davis , Steve Hankin , James Kinter, Roy Mendelssohn , James T. Potemra , Ashwanth Srinivasan, and Joseph Sirott

Growing a Distributed Ocean Observatory: Our View from the COOL Room
By Scott Glenn and Oscar Schofield

The Nurturing of Seagliders by the National Oceanographic Partnership Program
By Charles C. Eriksen and Mary Jane Perry

Remote Detection of Marine Microbes, Small Invertebrates, Harmful Algae, and Biotoxins using the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP)
By Christopher Scholin , Gregory Doucette, Scott Jensen, Brent Roman , Douglas Pargett , Roman Marin III , Christina Preston, William Jones, Jason Feldman, Cheri Everlove , Cheri Everlove , Nilo Alvarado, Eugene Massion, James Birch , Dianne Greenfield, Robert Vrijenhoek, Christina Mikulski , and Kelly Jones

The NOPP O-SCOPE and MOSEAN Projects: Advanced Sensing for Ocean Observing Systems
By Tommy Dickey , Nick Bates, Robert H. Byrne, Grace Chang, Francisco P. Chavez, Richard A. Feely , Alfred K. Hanson, David M. Karl, Derek Manov, Casey Moore , Christopher L. Sabine, and Rik Wanninkhof

Autonomous Observations of the Ocean Biological Carbon Pump
By James K.B. Bishop

Operational Use and Impact of Satellite Remotely Sensed Ocean Surface Vector Winds in the Marine Warning and Forecasting Environment
By Paul S. Chang, Zorana Jelenak, Joseph M. Sienkiewicz , Richard Knabb , Michael J. Brennan, David G. Long, and Mark Freeberg

The National Oceanographic Partnership Program: A Decade of Impacts on Oceanography
By Cynthia J. Decker and Colin Reed

Kayaking with Bernoulli
By Burkard Baschek and David M. Farmer

Wave Navigation in The Marshall Islands: Comparing Indigenous and Western Scientific Knowledge of the Ocean
By Joseph Genz , Jerome Aucan , Mark Merrifield , Ben Finney , Korent Joel , and Alson Kelen

The Once and Future Ocean
By Paul G. Falkowski

QUARTERDECK • Common Graphics Misconceptions
By Ellen S. Kappel

FROM THE PRESIDENT • New Organizing Principle for Ocean Sciences
By Carolyn A. Thoroughgood

COMMENTARY • Enhancing Ocean Literacy Using Real-Time Data
By Lisa G. Adams and George Matsumoto

RIPPLE MARKS • "Witch Tree" Embodies Spirit of Lake Superior | No Safe Harbor for "Living Fossil" Fish Along Tanzania's Coast | Total Eclipse of the Art | The Unexpected Rainmakers: Forests—Atmospheric Moisture Pumps—May Be Driving Rainfall
By Cheryl Lyn Dybas

HANDS-ON OCEANOGRAPHY • A Classroom Activity Using Satellite Sea Surface Temperatures to Predict Coral Bleaching
By Britt-Anne Parker , Tyler R.L. Christensen , Scott F. Heron , Jessica A. Morgan, and C. Mark Eakin

THE OCEANOGRAPHY CLASSROOM • Working Away From Home–The Longer-term Option
By Simon Boxall

BOOK REVIEW • Chemical Oceanography and the Marine Carbon Cycle
By Timothy Shaw

FILM REVIEW • Strait Through The Ice
By James P.M.Syvitski

Ben Chicoski, Consortium for Ocean Leadership

We would like to thank the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Office of Naval Research for sponsoring this issue of Oceanography.