December 2025

IN THIS ISSUE. Training leaders for seagoing polar oceanography, cost-conscious measurements off Bangladesh, air-cushion travel for science missions in polar regions, ten pressing questions (and answers) about marine fungi, and more…

Oceanography | Vol. 38, No. 4

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FEATURE ARTICLE

EXPLORING AIR CUSHION TRAVEL

FOR SCIENCE MISSIONS OVER ARCTIC SEA ICE

AND ANTARCTIC ICE SHELVES, 2008–2025

By John K. Hall and Yngve Kristoffersen

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Graduate student testing prototype autonomous

seismic buoy for real-time data transmission in

August 2009. Location is north of Svalbard at 82°N.