Volume 29 | Number 4 | December 2016
Special Issue on Ocean-Ice Interaction
On the Cover: M/V Neptune conducting a survey in front of Northern K.J.V. Steenstrup Glacier in Southeast Greenland. This image was taken using a drone in September 2016 as part of NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland mission.
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SPECIAL ISSUE FEATURES
FROM THE GUEST EDITORS. Introduction to the Special Issue on Ocean-Ice Interaction
By
Josh K. Willis,
Eric Rignot,
R. Steven Nerem, and
Eric Lindstrom
Greenland Melt and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
By
Eleanor Frajka-Williams,
Jonathan L. Bamber, and
Kjetil Våge
Connecting the Greenland Ice Sheet and the Ocean: A Case Study of Helheim Glacier and Sermilik Fjord
By
Fiammetta Straneo,
Gordon S. Hamilton,
Leigh A. Stearns , and
David A. Sutherland
An Intensive Observation of Calving at Helheim Glacier, East Greenland
By
David M. Holland,
Denis Voytenko,
Knut Christianson,
Timothy H. Dixon,
M. Jeffrey Mei,
Byron R. Parizek,
Irena Vaňková ,
Ryan T. Walker,
Jacob I. Walter,
Keith Nicholls, and
Denise Holland
Improving Bed Topography Mapping of Greenland Glaciers Using NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) Data
By
Mathieu Morlighem,
Eric Rignot , and
Josh K. Willis
Oceans Melting Greenland: Early Results from NASA’s Ocean-Ice Mission in Greenland
By
Ian Fenty,
Josh K. Willis ,
Ala Khazendar ,
Steven Dinardo,
René Forsberg,
Ichiro Fukumori,
David Holland ,
Martin Jakobsson,
Delwyn Moller,
James Morison,
Andreas Münchow,
Eric Rignot,
Michael Schodlok,
Andrew F. Thompson,
Kirsteen Tinto,
Matthew Rutherford, and
Nicole Trenholm
The Ice Shelf of Petermann Gletscher, North Greenland, and Its Connection to the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans
By
Andreas Münchow,
Laurie Padman,
Peter Washam, and
Keith W. Nicholls
Temporal Changes in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: Implications for the Antarctic Continental Shelves
By
Sarah T. Gille,
Darren C. McKee, and
Douglas G. Martinson
Decadal Ocean Forcing and Antarctic Ice Sheet Response: Lessons from the Amundsen Sea
By
Adrian Jenkins,
Pierre Dutrieux,
Stan Jacobs,
Eric J. Steig ,
G. Hilmar Gudmundsson,
James Smith, and
Karen J. Heywood
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: The Role of the Amundsen Sea Continental Shelf in Exchanges Between Ocean and Ice Shelves
By
Karen J. Heywood,
Louise C. Biddle,
Lars Boehme,
Pierre Dutrieux,
Michael Fedak ,
Adrian Jenkins,
Richard W. Jones,
Jan Kaiser,
Helen Mallett,
Alberto C. Naveira Garabato,
Ian A. Renfrew,
David P. Stevens, and
Benjamin G.M. Webber
Ocean-Ice Shelf Interaction in East Antarctica
By
Alessandro Silvano,
Stephen R. Rintoul, and
Laura Herraiz-Borreguero
Modeling Ice Shelf/Ocean Interaction in Antarctica: A Review
By
Michael S. Dinniman,
Xylar S. Asay-Davis,
Benjamin K. Galton-Fenzi ,
Paul R. Holland ,
Adrian Jenkins, and
Ralph Timmermann
Contributions of Greenland and Antarctica to Global and Regional Sea Level Change
By
Eric W. Leuliette and
R. Steven Nerem
REGULAR ISSUE FEATURES
Exploring the “Sharkcano”: Biogeochemical Observations of the Kavachi Submarine Volcano (Solomon Islands)
By
Brennan T. Phillips,
Matthew Dunbabin,
Corey Howell,
Alex DeCiccio,
Ashton Flinders,
Katherine A. Kelley,
Jarrod J. Scott,
Simon Albert,
Steven Carey,
Rami Tsadok, and
Alistair Grinham
The Fine Art of Exploration
By
Edith Widder
The 1966 Flooding of Venice: What Time Taught Us for the Future
By
Fabio Trincardi ,
Andrea Barbanti ,
Mauro Bastianini,
Luigi Cavaleri ,
Jacopo Chiggiato ,
Alvise Papa,
Angela Pomaro,
Mauro Sclavo ,
Luigi Tosi, and
Georg Umgiesser
Transcritical Flow and Generation of Internal Solitary Waves off the Amazon River: Synthetic Aperture Radar Observations and Interpretation
By
Carlos A.D. Lentini,
Jorge M. Magalhães,
José C.B. da Silva, and
João A. Lorenzzetti
HyMeX-SOP2: The Field Campaign Dedicated to Dense Water Formation in the Northwestern Mediterranean
By
Claude Estournel ,
Pierre Testor,
Isabelle Taupier-Letage,
Marie-Noelle Bouin,
Laurent Coppola ,
Pierre Durand,
Pascal Conan,
Anthony Bosse,
Pierre-Etienne Brilouet,
Laurent Beguery,
Sophie Belamari,
Karine Béranger,
Jonathan Beuvier ,
Denis Bourras ,
Guylaine Canut,
Alexis Doerenbecher,
Xavier Durrieu de Madron,
Fabrizio D’Ortenzio,
Philippe Drobinski,
Véronique Ducrocq,
Nadia Fourrié,
Hervé Giordani,
Loïc Houpert,
Laurent Labatut,
Cindy Lebeaupin Brossier,
Mathieu Nuret,
Louis Prieur,
Odile Roussot ,
Leo Seyfried, and
Samuel Somot
DEPARTMENTS
QUARTERDECK • In Memory of Tom Garrison
By
Ellen S. Kappel
FROM THE PRESIDENT • The New World of Oceanography
By
M. Susan Lozier
COMMENTARY • Marine Microalgae: Climate, Energy, and Food Security from the Sea
By
Charles H. Greene,
Mark E. Huntley,
Léda N. Gerber,
Deborah L. Sills,
Joe Granados,
Jefferson W. Tester,
Colin M. Beal,
Michael J. Walsh,
Robert R. Bidigare,
Susan L. Brown,
William P. Cochlan,
Zackary I. Johnson ,
Xin Gen Lei ,
Stephen C. Machesky,
Donald G. Redalje,
Ruth E. Richardson,
Viswanath Kiron, and
Virginia Corless
RIPPLE MARKS • Protecting the World’s High Seas Heritage from the White Shark Café to the Sargasso Sea
Dybas, C.L. 2016. Ripple marks—The story behind the story. Oceanography 29(4):16–18, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2016.92.
THE OCEANOGRAPHY CLASSROOM • Course Design Principles for Enhancing Student Learning
By
Leilani Arthurs
CAREER PROFILES • Options and Insights
Career profiles—Options and insights. 2016. Oceanography 29(4):209–211.
Special Issue Guest Editors
Eric Lindstrom, NASA
R. Steven Nerem, University of Colorado Boulder
Eric Rignot, University of California, Irvine, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Josh Willis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Sponsors
Production of this issue of Oceanography was supported by NASA.