FROM THE GUEST EDITORS • Introduction to the Special Issue on PISCO: Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans
By Heather M. Leslie, Mary Ruckelshaus, and Jon D. Witman

PISCO: Advances Made Through the Formation of a Large-Scale, Long-Term Consortium for Integrated Understanding of Coastal Ecosystem Dynamics
By Bruce A. Menge*, Kristen Milligan*, Jennifer E. Caselle*, John A. Barth, Carol A. Blanchette, Mark H. Carr, Francis Chan, Robert K. Cowen, Mark Denny, Steven D. Gaines, Gretchen E. Hofmann, Kristy J. Kroeker, Jane Lubchenco, Margaret A. McManus, Mark Novak, Stephen R. Palumbi, Peter T. Raimondi, George N. Somero, Robert R. Warner, Libe Washburn, and J. Wilson White

Quantitative Biogeography: Large-Scale, Long-Term Change in the Rocky Intertidal Region of the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem
By Peter T. Raimondi*, C. Melissa Miner*, Bruce A. Menge, Carol A. Blanchette, and David P. Lohse

Integrating Coastal Oceanic and Benthic Ecological Approaches for Understanding Large-Scale Meta-Ecosystem Dynamics
By Bruce A. Menge*, Jennifer E. Caselle*, Kristen Milligan*, Sarah A. Gravem, Tarik C. Gouhier, J. Wilson White, John A. Barth, Carol A. Blanchette, Mark H. Carr, Francis Chan, Jane Lubchenco, Margaret A. McManus, Mark Novak, Peter T. Raimondi, and Libe Washburn

Connectivity, Dispersal, and Recruitment: Connecting Benthic Communities and the Coastal Ocean
By J. Wilson White, Mark H. Carr, Jennifer E. Caselle, Libe Washburn, C. Brock Woodson, Stephen R. Palumbi, Peter M. Carlson, Robert R. Warner, Bruce A. Menge, John A. Barth, Carol A. Blanchette, Peter T. Raimondi, and Kristen Milligan

SIDEBAR • Empirical Approaches to Measure Connectivity
By J. Wilson White, Mark H. Carr, Jennifer E. Caselle, Stephen R. Palumbi, Robert R. Warner, Bruce A. Menge, and Kristen Milligan

The Dynamics and Impact of Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia: Insights from Sustained Investigations in the Northern California Current Large Marine Ecosystem
By Francis Chan, John A. Barth, Kristy J. Kroeker, Jane Lubchenco, and Bruce A. Menge

Community Responses to Climate-Related Variability and Disease: The Critical Importance of Long-Term Research
By Bruce A. Menge*, Jennifer E. Caselle*, John A. Barth, Carol A. Blanchette, Mark H. Carr, Francis Chan, Sarah Gravem, Tarik C. Gouhier, Jane Lubchenco, Margaret A. McManus, Kristen Milligan, Mark Novak, Peter T. Raimondi, Libe Washburn, and J. Wilson White

Present and Future Adaptation of Marine Species Assemblages: DNA-Based Insights into Climate Change from Studies of Physiology, Genomics, and Evolution
By Stephen R. Palumbi, Tyler G. Evans, Melissa H. Pespeni, and George N. Somero

Marine Protected Areas Exemplify the Evolution of Science and Policy
By Mark H. Carr, J. Wilson White, Emily Saarman, Jane Lubchenco, Kristen Milligan, and Jennifer E. Caselle

SIDEBAR • The Science of Marine Reserves: A Series of Booklets and Graphics Connecting Science, Public Understanding, and Policy
By Kirsten Grorud-Colvert, Jane Lubchenco, Satie Airamé, Monica Pessino, and Steven D. Gaines

Connecting Science to Policymakers, Managers, and Citizens
By Jane Lubchenco, Bruce A. Menge, John A. Barth, Mark H. Carr, Jennifer E. Caselle, Francis Chan, Heather K. Fulton-Bennett, Steven D. Gaines, Kristy J. Kroeker, Kristen Milligan, Steven R. Palumbi, and J. Wilson White

Planning for Change: Assessing the Potential Role of Marine Protected Areas and Fisheries Management Approaches for Resilience Management in a Changing Ocean
By Kristy J. Kroeker, Mark H. Carr, Peter T. Raimondi, Jennifer E. Caselle, Libe Washburn, Stephen R. Palumbi, John A. Barth, Francis Chan, Bruce A. Menge, Kristen Milligan, Mark Novak, and J. Wilson White

Oleander is More than a Flower: Twenty-Five Years of Oceanography Aboard a Merchant Vessel
By Thomas Rossby, Charles N. Flagg, Kathleen Donohue, Sandra Fontana, Ruth Curry, Magdalena Andres, and Jacob Forsyth

SIDEBAR • Submesoscale Dynamics Inferred from Oleander Data
By Jörn Callies

SIDEBAR • Acoustic Backscatter Patterns
By Jaime Palter, Lauren Cook, Afonso Gonçalves Neto, Sarah Nickford, and Daniele Bianchi

QUARTERDECK • Ten Years of Career Profiles
By Ellen S. Kappel

FROM THE PRESIDENT • From Knowledge to Value: Connecting the Boxes
By Martin Visbeck

RIPPLE MARKS • The DNA They Leave Behind: In a Drop of Water, New Answers to Questions About Marine Species
By Cheryl Lyn Dybas

THE OCEANOGRAPHY CLASSROOM • How (Not) to Run an Oceanography Field Course
By Simon Boxall

BOOK REVIEW • Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans
By Ian Brosnan

CAREER PROFILES • CAREER PROFILES. Options and Insights
Career Profiles—Options and Insights. 2019. Oceanography 32(3):146–148.

Heather Leslie, Darling Marine Center & School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine
Mary Ruckelshaus, Stanford University
Jon Witman, Brown University

Production of this issue of Oceanography was supported by core funding from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans.