Foreword
By Marcia McNutt

From the Guest Editors
By Hubert Staudigel , Anthony A.P. Koppers , J. William Lavelle, Tony J. Pitcher , and Timothy M. Shank

BOX • Defining the Word "Seamount"
By Hubert Staudigel , Anthony A.P. Koppers , J. William Lavelle , Tony J. Pitcher, and Timothy M. Shank

BOX • Featured Seamount Locations
Box 2: Featured seamount locations. 2010. Oceanography 23(1):22–23.

The Global Seamount Census
By Paul Wessel , David T. Sandwell , and Seung-Sep Kim

BOX • Seamount Discovery Tool Aids Navigation to Uncharted Seafloor Features
By David T. Sandwell and Paul Wessel

BOX • Seamount Catalog: Seamount Morphology, Maps, and Data Files
By Anthony A.P. Koppers, Hubert Staudigel, and Rupert Minnett

SPOTLIGHT • Axial Seamount
By William W. Chadwick , David A. Butterfield , Robert W. Embley, Verena Tunnicliffe, Julie A. Huber , Scott L. Nooner, and David A. Clague

SPOTLIGHT • Jasper Seamount
By Jasper G. Konter , Hubert Staudigel , and Jeffrey Gee

Intraplate Seamounts as a Window into Deep Earth Processes
By Anthony A.P. Koppers and Anthony B. Watts

The Geological History of Deep-Sea Volcanoes: Biosphere, Hydrosphere, and Lithosphere Interactions
By Hubert Staudigel and David A. Clague

SPOTLIGHT • Lō`ihi Seamount
By Hubert Staudigel, Craig L. Moyer , Michael O. Garcia , Alex Malahoff , David A. Clague, and Anthony A.P. Koppers

Seamounts as Conduits for Massive Fluid, Heat, and Solute Fluxes on Ridge Flanks
By Andrew T. Fisher and C. Geoffrey Wheat

BOX • The NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer: New Ways For Exploring the Ocean
By Stephen R. Hammond, John McDonough, and Craig Russell

Motion, Commotion, and Biophysical Connections at Deep Ocean Seamounts
By J. William Lavelle and Christian Mohn

SPOTLIGHT • New England and Corner Rise Seamounts
By Timothy M. Shank

SPOTLIGHT • Great Meteor Seamount
By Christian Mohn

Seamounts: Deep-Ocean Laboratories of Faunal Connectivity, Evolution, and Endemism
By Timothy M. Shank

BOX • Seamount Ecosystem Evaluation Framework (SEEF): A Tool for Global Seamount Research and Data Synthesis
By Tony J. Pitcher , Telmo Morato, Karen I. Stocks , and Malcolm R. Clark

SPOTLIGHT • Davidson Seamount
By David A. Clague , Lonny Lundsten, James Hein, Jennifer Paduan, and Alice Davis

BOX • Deep-Sea Corals on Seamounts
By Peter J. Etnoyer

BOX • Eight Major Target Species in World Seamount Fisheries
By Tony J. Pitcher

BOX • Effects of Trawling on Seamounts
By Malcolm R. Clark

Seamount Fisheries: Do They Have a Future?
By Tony J. Pitcher , Malcolm R. Clark, Telmo Morato, and Reg Watson

BOX • SeamountsOnline: A Desktop Window Into the Lives of Seamounts
By Karen I. Stocks

SPOTLIGHT • Graveyard Seamounts
By Malcolm R. Clark , Ashley A. Rowden, Ian Wright , and Mireille Consalvey

Microbiology of Seamounts: Common Patterns Observed in Community Structure
By David Emerson and Craig L. Moyer

SPOTLIGHT • Vailulu'u Seamount
By Anthony A.P. Koppers, Hubert Staudigel , Stanley R. Hart, Craig Young , and Jasper G. Konter

Seamount Subduction and Earthquakes
By Anthony B. Watts, Anthony A.P. Koppers , and David P. Robinson

SPOTLIGHT • South Chamorro Seamount
By C. Geoffrey Wheat , Patricia Fryer , Ken Takai, and Samuel Hulme

Seamounts in the Subduction Factory
By Hubert Staudigel, Anthony A.P. Koppers , Terry A. Plank , and Barry B. Hanan

SPOTLIGHT • Northwest Rota-1 Seamount
By William W. Chadwick, Robert W. Embley, Edward T. Baker, Joseph A. Resing, John E. Lupton, Katharine V. Cashman, Robert P. Dziak , Verena Tunnicliffe, David A. Butterfield, and Yoshihiko Tamura

Seamount Mineral Deposits: A Source of Rare Metals for High-Technology Industries
By James R. Hein , Tracey A. Conrad, and Hubert Staudigel

Can We Protect Seamounts for Research? A Call For Conservation
By Telmo Morato , Tony J. Pitcher, Malcolm R. Clark, Gui Menezes, Fernando Tempera , Filipe Porteiro , Eva Giacomello, and Ricardo S. Santos

SPOTLIGHT • Dom João de Castro Seamount
By Ricardo S. Santos , Fernando Tempera , Ana Colaço, Frederico Cardigos , and Telmo Morato

SPOTLIGHT • Sedlo Seamount
By Ricardo S. Santos , Fernando Tempera , Gui Menezes , Filipe Porteiro, and Telmo Morato

BOX • Ocean Acoustic Waveguide Remote Sensing: Visualizing Life Around Seamounts
By Nicholas C. Makris , Srinivasan Jagannathan, and Anamaria Ignisca

BOX • How Large Is the Seamount Biome?
By Peter J. Etnoyer , John Wood, and Thomas C. Shirley

BOX • Databases and Internet Resources on Seamounts
Box 13: Databases and internet resources on seamounts. 2010. Oceanography 23(1):210–211.

Seamount Sciences: Quo Vadis?
By Hubert Staudigel, Anthony A.P. Koppers, J. William Lavelle, Tony J. Pitcher , and Timothy M. Shank

A Very Inconvenient Truth
By Charles H. Greene, D. James Baker , and Daniel H. Miller

QUARTERDECK • Of Note
By Ellen S. Kappel

FROM THE PRESIDENT • Marine Spatial Planning: A Call for Action
By Carolyn A. Thoroughgood

RIPPLE MARKS • "Talking to the Animals": Chemical Ecologists Translate the Language of the Sea | Earth's Oceans: And Then There Were Six? | Seashells, Not Diamonds, A Long-Ago "Girl's Best Friend" | We Are Stardust, We are Golden, Our Hearts Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon
By Cheryl Lyn Dybas

AWARDS • The Oceanography Society Fellows Program
Awards: The Oceanography Society Fellows Program. 2010. Oceanography 23(1):219.

THE OCEANOGRAPHY CLASSROOM • Your Course Outline—A Critical Document
By Tom Garrison

BOOK REVIEW • Ocean: Reflections on a Century of Exploration
By Peter Wadhams

BOOK REVIEW • Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans
By Andrew Fischer

BOOK REVIEW • Cold-Water Corals: The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats
By Sandra Brooke

BOOK REVIEW • The Silent Deep: The Discovery, Ecology, and Conservation of the Deep Sea
By Tim Shank

BOOK REVIEW • World Ocean Census: A Global Survey of Marine Life
By Charles H. Greene

Hubert Staudigel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Anthony A.P. Koppers, Oregon State University
J. William Lavelle, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Tony J. Pitcher, University of British Columbia
Timothy M. Shank, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Production of this issue was funded by US National Science Foundation grant OCE-0939834 to The Oceanography Society, and Research Coordination Network grant BIO-0443337 to H. Staudigel (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), and the New Zealand National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research Ltd.