Welcome to the December 2024 special issue of Oceanography on NISKINe: The Near-Inertial Shear and Kinetic Energy in the North Atlantic Experiment. This issue is in progress and articles will be posted as they are available. Please check back for new articles.

Why Near-Inertial Waves Are Less Affected by Vorticity in the Northeast Pacific Than in the North Atlantic
By Leif N. Thomas, Samuel M. Kelly, Thilo Klenz, William R. Young, Luc Rainville, Harper Simmons, Verena Hormann, and Ian Stokes

Blocked Drainpipes and Smoking Chimneys: Discovery of New Near-Inertial Wave Phenomena in Anticyclones
By Leif N. Thomas, James N. Moum, Lixin Qu, James P. Hilditch, Eric Kunze, Luc Rainville, and Craig M. Lee

Near-Inertial Energy Variability in a Strong Mesoscale Eddy Field in the Iceland Basin
By Gunnar Voet, Amy F. Waterhouse, Anna Savage, Eric Kunze, Jennifer A. MacKinnon, Matthew H. Alford, John A. Colosi, Harper L. Simmons, Thilo Klenz, Samuel M. Kelly, James N. Moum, Caitlin B. Whalen, Ren-Chieh Lien, and James B. Girton

Observations of the Upper Ocean from Autonomous Platforms During the Passage of Extratropical Cyclone Epsilon (2020)
By Michael T. Zimmerman, Steven R. Jayne, Luc Rainville, Craig M. Lee, John M. Toole, James B. Edson, Carol Anne Clayson, Alexander K. Ekholm, and Casey R. Densmore

Coherent Float Arrays for Near-Inertial Wave Studies
By James B. Girton, Caitlin B. Whalen, Ren-Chieh Lien, and Eric Kunze

Interaction of Typhoon-Driven Near-Inertial Waves with an Anticyclone in the Philippine Sea
By Cauê Zirnberger Lazaneo, Leif Thomas, Zoltan B. Szuts, Jesse M. Cusack, Kai-Fu Chang, and R. Kipp Shearman

WORKSHOP REPORT • Observing Ocean Boundary Currents: Lessons Learned from Six Regions with Mature Observational and Modeling Systems
By Nadia K. Ayoub, María Paz Chidichimo, Edward Dever, Xinyu Guo, Sung Yong Kim, Marjolaine Krug, Belén Martín Míguez, Tamaryn Morris, Moninya Roughan, Janet Sprintall, Kiyoshi Tanaka, Robert E. Todd, John Wilkin, Enrique Álvarez-Fanjul, Magdalena Andres, Anthony Bosse, Christopher A. Edwards, Jonathan Gula, Colette G. Kerry, Yasumasa Miyazawa, Paolo Oddo, Eitarou Oka, and Katherine D. Zaba

THE OCEANOGRAPHY CLASSROOM • Supporting Sensemaking by Introducing a Connecting Thread Throughout a Course
By Kjersti Daae, Stefanie Semper, and Mirjam S. Glessmer

FROM THE TOS JEDI COMMITTEE • Recognizing JEDI Efforts in the Hiring, Tenure, and Promotion Process
By James Pierson, Genevieve Nesslage, Alexandra Fries, Heath Kelsey, Feng Chen, Cathlyn Davis, and Kenneth Rose

CAREER PROFILES • OPTIONS AND INSIGHTS. Emma R. Ozanich
By Emma R. Ozanich

Harper Simmons, University of Washington
Emily Shroyer, Office of Naval Research
Leif Thomas, Stanford University