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CONTENTS
VOL. 36, NO. 2–3, OCTOBER 2023
SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE
PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY
50 YEARS OF INNOVATIVE RESEARCH IN OCEANOGRAPHY
6 Foreword
By R.W. Spinrad
8 Introduction
By R.A. Feely
10 The History and Evolution of PMEL: Purposeful Research that Impacts
Environmental Policy
By M.M. McClure, C.L. Sabine, R.A. Feely, S.R. Hammond, C. Meinig, M.J. McPhaden,
P.J. Stabeno, and E. Bernard
26 Data Processing and Management at PMEL: A 50-Year Perspective
By E.F. Burger, K.M. O’Brien, S. Hankin, R. Schweitzer, L. Kamb, S. Osborne,
and A. Manke
32 Tropical Ocean Observations for Weather and Climate: A Decadal Overview
of the Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array
By M.J. McPhaden, K.J. Connell, G.R. Foltz, R.C. Perez, and K. Grissom
44 SIDEBAR. Surviving Piracy and the Coronavirus Pandemic
By K.J. Connell, M.J. McPhaden, G.R. Foltz, R.C. Perez, and K. Grissom
46 PMEL Ocean Climate Stations as Reference Time Series and Research
Aggregate Devices
By M.F. Cronin, N.D. Anderson, D. Zhang, P. Berk, S.M. Wills, Y. Serra, C. Kohlman,
A.J. Sutton, M.C. Honda, Y. Kawai, J. Yang, J. Thomson, N. Lawrence-Slavas,
J. Reeves Eyre, and C. Meinig
54 After Two Decades, Argo at PMEL, Looks to the Future
By G.C. Johnson and A.J. Fassbender
60 PMEL’s Contribution to Observing and Analyzing Decadal Global Ocean
Changes Through Sustained Repeat Hydrography
By Z.K. Erickson, B.R. Carter, R.A. Feely, G.C. Johnson, J.D. Sharp, and R.E. Sonnerup
70 Observing Extreme Ocean and Weather Events Using Innovative Saildrone
Uncrewed Surface Vehicles
By D. Zhang, A.M. Chiodi, C. Zhang, G.R. Foltz, M.F. Cronin, C.W. Mordy, J. Cross,
E.D. Cokelet, J.A. Zhang, C. Meinig, N. Lawrence-Slavas, P.J. Stabeno, and R. Jenkins
78 Long-Term Biophysical Observations and Climate Impacts in US Arctic
Marine Ecosystems
By P.J. Stabeno, S. Bell, C. Berchok, E.D. Cokelet, J. Cross, R.M. McCabe, C.W. Mordy,
J. Overland, D. Strausz, M. Sullivan, and H.M. Tabisola
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