Autonomous Instruments Significantly Expand Ocean Observing: An Introduction to the Special Issue
By Craig M. Lee, Theresa Paluszkiewicz , Daniel L. Rudnick, Melissa M. Omand, and Robert E. Todd

The Argo Program: Present and Future
By Steven R. Jayne , Dean Roemmich , Nathalie Zilberman , Stephen C. Riser , Kenneth S. Johnson , Gregory C. Johnson , and Stephen R. Piotrowicz

Air-Deployable Profiling Floats
By Steven R. Jayne and Neil M. Bogue

Looking Ahead: A Profiling Float Micro-Rosette
By Philip Bresnahan, Todd Martz, Joao de Almeida, Brian Ward , and Paul Maguire

ASIP: Profiling the Upper Ocean
By Anneke ten Doeschate, Graig Sutherland, Leonie Esters, Danielle Wain, Kieran Walesby, and Brian Ward

A New Technology for Continuous Long-Range Tracking of Fish and Lobster
By Thomas Rossby, Godi Fischer, and Melissa M. Omand

Autonomous Multi-Platform Observations During the Salinity Processes in the Upper-ocean Regional Study
By Eric J. Lindstrom, Andrey Y. Shcherbina, Luc Rainville, J. Thomas Farrar, Luca R. Centurioni, Shenfu Dong , Eric A. D’Asaro , Charles Eriksen, David M. Fratantoni, Benjamin A. Hodges, Verena Hormann, William S. Kessler, Craig M. Lee, Stephen C. Riser , Louis St. Laurent, and Denis L. Volkov

Multi-Month Dissipation Estimates Using Microstructure from Autonomous Underwater Gliders
By Luc Rainville, Jason I. Gobat, Craig M. Lee, and Geoffrey B. Shilling

Observing Internal Tides in High-Risk Regions Using Co-located Ocean Gliders and Moored ADCPs
By Rob A. Hall , Barbara Berx, and Mark E. Inall

KAUST’s Red Sea Observing System
By Burton H. Jones and Yasser Kattan

An Autonomous Approach to Observing the Seasonal Ice Zone in the Western Arctic
By Craig M. Lee, Jim Thomson, The Marginal Ice Zone Team, and The Arctic Sea State Team

On the Benefit of Current and Future ALPS Data for Improving Arctic Coupled Ocean-Sea Ice State Estimation
By An T. Nguyen, Victor Ocaña, Vikram Garg, Patrick Heimbach, John M. Toole, Richard A. Krishfield , Craig M. Lee, and Luc Rainville

Northern Arabian Sea Circulation-Autonomous Research (NASCar): A Research Initiative Based on Autonomous Sensors
By Luca Centurioni , Verena Hormann, Lynne D. Talley , Isabella Arzeno, Lisa Beal, Michael Caruso, Patrick Conry, Rosalind Echols, Harindra J.S. Fernando, Sarah N. Giddings, Arnold Gordon, Hans Graber, Ramsey R. Harcourt, Steven R. Jayne , Tommy G. Jensen , Craig M. Lee , Pierre F.J. Lermusiaux, Pierre L’Hegaret , Andrew J. Lucas, Amala Mahadevan, Julie L. McClean, Geno Pawlak , Luc Rainville, Stephen C. Riser , Hyodae Seo, Andrey Y. Shcherbina , Eric Skyllingstad , Janet Sprintall , Bulusu Subrahmanyam , Eric Terrill , Robert E. Todd, Corinne Trott , Hugo N. Ulloa, and He Wang

Underwater Glider Observations and the Representation of Western Boundary Currents in Numerical Models
By Robert E. Todd and Lea Locke-Wynn

Ocean Glider Observations Around Australia
By Charitha Pattiaratchi, L. Mun Woo, Paul G. Thomson, Kah Kiat Hong, and Dennis Stanley

Autonomous and Lagrangian Ocean Observations for Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Studies and Forecasts
By Gustavo J. Goni, Robert E. Todd, Steven R. Jayne, George Halliwell , Scott Glenn , Jili Dong, Ruth Curry, Ricardo Domingues, Francis Bringas, Luca Centurioni , Steven F. DiMarco , Travis Miles, Julio Morell , Luis Pomales, Hyun-Sook Kim , Pelle E. Robbins, Glen G. Gawarkiewicz, John Wilkin, Joleen Heiderich, Becky Baltes , Joseph J. Cione , Greg Seroka, Kelly Knee, and Elizabeth R. Sanabia

Sustained Measurements of Southern Ocean Air-Sea Coupling from a Wave Glider Autonomous Surface Vehicle
By Jim Thomson and James Girton

Autonomous CTD Profiling from the Robotic Oceanographic Surface Sampler
By Jonathan D. Nash, June Marion, Nick McComb, Jasmine S. Nahorniak, Rebecca H. Jackson , Corwin Perren, Dylan Winters , Andy Pickering, Jorian Bruslind, Onn Lim Yong , and Sam Jia Khai Lee

Advances in Ecosystem Research: Saildrone Surveys of Oceanography, Fish, and Marine Mammals in the Bering Sea
By Calvin W. Mordy , Edward D. Cokelet, Alex De Robertis, Richard Jenkins , Carey E. Kuhn , Noah Lawrence-Slavas, Catherine L. Berchok , Jessica L. Crance , Jeremy T. Sterling , Jessica N. Cross, Phyllis J. Stabeno , Christian Meinig , Heather M. Tabisola, William Burgess, and Ivar Wangen

Measurements of Near-Surface Turbulence and Mixing from Autonomous Ocean Gliders
By Louis St. Laurent and Sophia Merrifield

Ocean Wave Energy for Long Endurance, Broad Bandwidth Ocean Monitoring
By Andrew J. Lucas, Robert Pinkel, and Matthew Alford

Using Bio-Optics to Reveal Phytoplankton Physiology from a Wirewalker Autonomous Platform
By Melissa M. Omand, Ivona Cetinić , and Andrew J. Lucas

Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole to Pole: A Review of the MEOP Consortium
By Anne M. Treasure, Fabien Roquet, Isabelle J. Ansorge, Marthán N. Bester, Lars Boehme, Horst Bornemann , Jean-Benoît Charrassin, Damien Chevallier, Daniel P. Costa , Mike A. Fedak , Christophe Guinet, Mike O. Hammill , Robert G. Harcourt , Mark A. Hindell, Kit M. Kovacs , Mary-Anne Lea, Phil Lovell , Andrew D. Lowther, Christian Lydersen, Trevor McIntyre, Clive R. McMahon, Mônica M.C. Muelbert, Keith Nicholls, Baptiste Picard, Gilles Reverdin, Andrew W. Trites, Guy D. Williams, and P.J. Nico de Bruyn

Ocean Observations Using Tagged Animals
By Fabien Roquet, Lars Boehme , Mike A. Fedak, Barbara Block, Jean-Benoit Charrassin, Daniel Costa, Luis A. Hückstädt, Christophe Guinet, Robert G. Harcourt , Mark A. Hindell , Clive R. McMahon, and Bill Woodward

Do Southern Elephant Seals Behave Like Weather Buoys?
By Dorian Cazau, Cédric Pradalier, Julien Bonnel , and Christophe Guinet

Project Recover: Extending the Applications of Unmanned Platforms and Autonomy to Support Underwater MIA Searches
By Eric J. Terrill , Mark A. Moline , Patrick J. Scannon, Eric Gallimore, Travis Schramek, Andy Nager , Robert Hess, Megan Cimino , Patrick L. Colin , Andrew Pietruszka, and Mark R. Anderson

Satellites to Seafloor: Toward Fully Autonomous Ocean Sampling
By Andrew F. Thompson, Yi Chao, Steve Chien, James Kinsey , M. Mar Flexas, Zachary K. Erickson , John Farrara, David Fratantoni, Andrew Branch, Selina Chu , Martina Troesch , Brian Claus, and James Kepper

Do AUVs Dream of Electric Eels?
By Jeffrey W. Kaeli

Optimal Planning and Sampling Predictions for Autonomous and Lagrangian Platforms and Sensors in the Northern Arabian Sea
By Pierre F.J. Lermusiaux, Patrick J. Haley Jr., Sudip Jana, Abhinav Gupta, Chinmay S. Kulkarni, Chris Mirabito, Wael Hajj Ali, Deepak N. Subramani, Arkopal Dutt, Jing Lin, Andrey Y. Shcherbina, Craig M. Lee, and Avijit Gangopadhyay

Ambient Sound at Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench
By Robert P. Dziak, Joseph H. Haxel , Haruyoshi Matsumoto, Tai-Kwan Lau , Sara Heimlich , Sharon Nieukirk , David K. Mellinger, James Osse, Christian Meinig , Nicholas Delich, and Scott Stalin

Two-Stage Exams: A Powerful Tool for Reducing the Achievement Gap in Undergraduate Oceanography and Geology Classes
By Barbara C. Bruno, Jennifer Engels, Garrett Ito , Jeffrey Gillis-Davis, Henrietta Dulai, Glenn Carter, Charles Fletcher , and Daniela Böttjer-Wilson

Swells, Soundings, and Sustainability, but…“Here Be Monsters”
By Dawn J. Wright

QUARTERDECK • Our Awesome, Inspiring US Park Rangers and the Value of Public Service
By Ellen S. Kappel

FROM THE PRESIDENT • Follow the Money
By Alan C. Mix

TRIBUTE • A Tribute to Mike Storms: August 30, 1947–May 6, 2017
By Brad Clement, Mitch Malone, Peggy Delaney, Rick Murray, Larry Mayer, Peter deMenocal, and Ken Miller

RIPPLE MARKS • Sushi Bait and Switch: What Fish Are You Really Eating?
By Cheryl Lyn Dybas

HANDS-ON OCEANOGRAPHY • Observing the Ocean with Gliders: Techniques for Data Visualization and Analysis
By Christine E. Hanson , L. Mun Woo , Paul G. Thomson, and Charitha B. Pattiaratchi

BOOK REVIEW • A Sea of Glass: Searching for the Blaschkas’ Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk
By Bruce H. Robison

CAREER PROFILES • Options and Insights
Career profiles—Options and insights. 2017. Oceanography 30(2):230–232.

Craig Lee, University of Washington
Melissa Omand, University of Rhode Island
Terri Paluszkiewicz, Office of Naval Research
Dan Rudnick, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Robert Todd, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Production of this issue of Oceanography was supported by the Office of Naval Research through a grant to Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.