Volume 34 | Number 3 | September 2021
On the Cover: Right whale calf of the 2020–2021 calving season and mother. The right whale population has exhibited an unusually high mortality rate since 2017, cumulatively losing an unprecedented number of adult whales to ship strikes and fishing gear entanglement. Today, it is estimated that there are fewer than 360 right whales remaining globally. See Meyer-Gutbrod et al. (2021, in this issue) for details. Photo credit: Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute & USACE taken under NOAA permit #20556-01
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REGULAR ISSUE FEATURES
Ocean Regime Shift is Driving Collapse of the North Atlantic Right Whale Population
By
Erin L. Meyer-Gutbrod,
Charles H. Greene,
Kimberley T.A. Davies, and
David G. Johns
A Practical Approach to Monitoring Marine Protected Areas: An Application to El Bajo Espíritu Santo Seamount Near La Paz, Mexico
By
Héctor Villalobos,
Juan P. Zwolinski,
Carlos A. Godínez-Pérez,
Violeta E. González-Máynez,
Fernando Manini-Ramos,
Melissa Mayorga-Martínez,
William L. Michaels,
Mitzi S. Palacios-Higuera,
Uriel Rubio-Rodríguez,
Airam N. Sarmiento-Lezcano, and
David A. Demer
Visiting Scientists Provide Capacity Development: Lessons Learned by POGO and SCOR
By
Ed Urban and
Sophie Seeyave
Changing the Culture of Coastal, Ocean, and Marine Sciences: Strategies for Individual and Collective Actions
By
Mona Behl,
Sharon Cooper,
Corey Garza,
Sarah E. Kolesar,
Sonya Legg,
Jonathan C. Lewis,
Lisa White, and
Brandon Jones
BREAKING WAVES
At the Interface of Marine Disciplines: Use of Autonomous Seafloor Equipment for Studies of Biofouling Below the Shallow-Water Zone
By
Alexandra Chava,
Anna Gebruk,
Glafira Kolbasova,
Artem Krylov,
Alexei Tanurkov,
Andrei Gorbuskin,
Olga Konovalova,
Dragosh Migali,
Yulia Ermilova,
Nikolay Shabalin,
Vladimir Chava,
Igor Semiletov, and
Vadim Mokievsky
DEPARTMENTS
QUARTERDECK • The September Issue: Some Things Old and Some Things New
By
Ellen S. Kappel
FROM THE PRESIDENT • Working Together Toward a Successful OSM 2022
By
Andone C. Lavery
FROM THE TOS JEDI COMMITTEE • JEDI Events and Programming for OSM 2022
By
Erin L. Meyer-Gutbrod
RIPPLE MARKS • Life in Seas Frozen and Tropical: For Penguins and Beyond, New Discoveries in Ocean Genomics
By
Cheryl Lyn Dybas
OCEAN CURRENTS • Tangled Up in Blue
By
Bob Friel
PERSPECTIVE • The Intertwined Futures of Whales and Humans
By
Nicholas R. Record
PERSPECTIVE • Can Right Whales Out-Swim Climate Change? Can We?
By
Andrew J. Pershing and
Daniel E. Pendleton
DIY OCEANOGRAPHY • An Optical Imaging System for Capturing Images in Low-Light Aquatic Habitats Using Only Ambient Light
By
Camille M.L.S. Pagniello,
Jack Butler,
Annie Rosen,
Addison Sherwood,
Paul L.D. Roberts,
P. Edward Parnell,
Jules S. Jaffe, and
Ana Širović
BOOK REVIEW • Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don't Know About the Ocean
By
Melbourne Briscoe
NAVIGATING GRAD SCHOOL • Envisioning and Writing a Thesis Proposal
By
Peter J.S. Franks
THE OCEANOGRAPHY CLASSROOM • Marine Mystery Organisms: Learning Marine Ecology with Whales, Not Flashcards
By
Rebecca Freeman
CAREER PROFILES • OPTIONS AND INSIGHTS: Elizabeth Cerny-Chipman
By
Elizabeth Cerny-Chipman
CAREER PROFILES • OPTIONS AND INSIGHTS: Ariana Sutton-Grier
By
Ariana Sutton-Grier