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About the Supplement
A decade ago—March 2005—The Oceanography Society published a special issue of Oceanography on "Women in Oceanography." The issue's goal was to explore why men continued to vastly outnumber women at the higher levels of the field, even as the number of female graduate students grew steadily. We captured our story through statistical measures, longer narratives, articles describing some innovative US programs that were conceived to promote women and retain them in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, and one-page autobiographical sketches written by women oceanographers. In stitching together this latest compendium, "Women in Oceanography: A Decade Later," the steering committee used the same tools to illuminate both the progress that has been made in addressing career barriers since the last volume was published and areas where further attention might still be needed.

>> AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

Introduction to "Women in Oceanography: A Decade Later"
By Ellen S. Kappel

Women in Oceanography: Continuing Challenges
By Beth N. Orcutt and Ivona Cetinić

SIDEBAR | A Brilliant Impostor?
By Mya Breitbart

Women of the Academy and the Sea: 2000–2014
By Suzanne O’Connell and Mary Anne Holmes

SIDEBAR | Mary Johrde and the Birth of the UNOLS Fleet
By Ellen S. Kappel

Invited Scientific Papers and Speakers and Fellow Awardees: Little Progress for Women Oceanographers in the Last Decade
By Ellen S. Kappel and LuAnne Thompson

SIDEBAR | Women Exploring the Ocean: womenoceanographers.org Fifteen Years Later
By Deborah K. Smith

Advancing Women in Oceanography: How NSF's ADVANCE Program Promotes Gender Equity in Academia
By Mary Anne Holmes

The Impact of MPOWIR: A Decade of Investing in Mentoring Women in Physical Oceanography
By Sarah Clem, Sonya Legg, Susan Lozier , and Colleen Mouw

Publication of this supplement to Oceanography was made possible through support from the Office of Naval Research.