Oceanography | Vol.28, No.3
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Oceanography | Vol.28, No.3
ON THE COVER
The Russian research vessel Professor Khromov plows
its way through thin ice over the Chukchi Plateau on a
US-Russian collaborative multidisciplinary mission to dis-
cover causes and consequences of diminishing sea ice
cover on the Russian and US sides of the Chukchi Sea.
Photo credit: Aleksey Ostrovskiy
DEPARTMENTS
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QUARTERDECK. Launch of the New Oceanography Website
By E.S. Kappel
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FROM THE PRESIDENT. Sharks and Miami Lawyers
By M.S. Lozier
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RIP CURRENT | NEWS IN OCEANOGRAPHY. Recent Sargassum
Inundation Events in the Caribbean: Shipboard Observations Reveal
Dominance of a Previously Rare Form
By J.M. Schell, D.S. Goodwin, and A.N.S. Siuda
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COMMENTARY. Mediterranean Sea Ship-based Hydrographic
Investigations Program (Med-SHIP)
By K. Schroeder, T. Tanhua, H.L. Bryden, M. Álvarez, J. Chiggiato,
and S. Aracri
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RIPPLE MARKS. One Fish, Two Fish, Cold Fish…Warm Fish?
Opah is First Known Warm-Blooded Ocean Fish
By C.L. Dybas
220 HANDS-ON OCEANOGRAPHY. Turbidity Currents: Comparing
Theory and Observation in the Lab
By J.D. Ortiz and A.A. Klompmaker
228 THE OCEANOGRAPHY CLASSROOM. How Broad is Your Course?
By S. Boxall
230 BOOK REVIEWS. Discovering the Deep: A Photographic Atlas of
the Seafloor and the Ocean Crust • Biogeochemistry of Marine
Dissolved Organic Matter (Second Edition)
233 CAREER PROFILES. Shelby Walker, Director, Oregon Sea Grant •
Cynthia J. Decker, Executive Director, NOAA Science Advisory Board
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