September 2024 | Oceanography
One of the many joys of being the Oceanography editor is working with the community to deliver
a range of article types designed to be of broad interest to readers, from science features, to news
items, educational contributions, DIY projects, workshop reports, career profles, and more. It
is this range of article types that sets Oceanography apart from most journals publishing in the
ocean sciences sphere.
Tis September issue of Oceanography is a great example of the variety of content our journal
delivers. Te issue kicks of with a news item by Record et al. that brings attention to deep- water
oceanographic changes in the Gulf of Maine in 2024 and their possible implications. Te news is
followed by a commentary contributed by Foukal and Chafik who argue for using a density coor-
dinate system to defne the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) rather than the
depth space defnition, and how adopting a common defnition of the AMOC in density coordinates
will promote progress in the feld. Four feature articles covering topics of broad interest to the ocean
sciences community follow this commentary: Rahmstorf on whether the AMOC is approaching a
tipping point, Bailey and Freedman on metocean aspects of ofshore wind energy, Hobday et al.
on building stakeholder response capacity to marine heatwaves, and Gray et al. on developing intu-
ition for using machine learning methods “wisely and in a way that benefts the community.”
Te feature articles are followed by a workshop report contributed by Savidge et al. on “Western
Boundary Current– Subtropical Continental Shelf Interactions.” Next, in a DIY Oceanography arti-
cle, Marchese et al. demonstrate the practical application of the leafet R package, which was used
on an expedition to improve data sharing and visualization, aiding in selection of sampling stations.
An ocean education article by Lockridge and Dorgan describes a half-semester course where stu-
dents build, calibrate, and test an Arduino-based instrument that measures temperature and depth.
Te September issue concludes with our regular columns. Glessmer et al. share tips in
Te Oceanography Classroom on how to adapt teaching methods to ft purpose and context, encour-
aging instructors to experiment with it. Tis month’s JEDI Committee columnists White et al. shine
a light on all the personnel behind the scenes who don’t ofen get recognized for their contribu-
tions to oceanographic research, and they challenge the community to fnd avenues to acknowl-
edge these workers. As Oceanography has done for nearly 15 years, we conclude the issue by shar-
ing two career profles, one contributed by Scott Loranger (Kongsberg Discovery), and another by
Jocelyn Runnebaum (Te Nature Conservancy).
So, grab this issue of Oceanography and enjoy reading it from cover to cover. As an open access
journal, all the individual articles are available from Oceanography’s web pages (https://tos.org/
oceanography/ issue/volume-37-issue-3). Readers can instead choose to page through the fip-
book version found on our digital kiosk (https://oceanographydigital.tos.org/). Please think about
what else you might like to see in the journal and send me—or any of the Oceanography associ-
ate editors (https://tos.org/ oceanography/ editors)—a note. Or submit your own manuscript to
Oceanography through our web portal (https://oceanography.scholasticahq.com/). We look forward
to hearing from you.
QUARTERDECK
Ellen S. Kappel, Editor
Oceanography Ofers an
Enticing Variety Pack
DOI. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2024.512