Vol. 13, No. 3
Special Issue: Ocean Biogeographic Information System

SPECIAL ISSUE FEATURES

The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS): an on-line, worldwide atlas for accessing, modeling and mapping marine biological data in a multidimensional geographic context (772 KB pdf)
J.F. Grassle

Glossary of Terms (164 KB pdf)

Harnessing museum resources for the Census of Marine Life: The FISHNET project (1.3 MB pdf)
D. Vieglais, E.O. Wiley, C.R. Robins, A.T. Peterson

CephBase: testing ideas for cephalopod and other species-level databases (1.4 MB pdf)
J.W. Wood, C.L. Day, P. Lee, R.K. O'Dor

Where are all the data? (1.5 MB pdf)
G. Paterson, G. Boxshall, N. Thomson, C. Hussey

Development of a dynamic biogeographic information system for the Gulf of Maine (1.3 MB pdf)
V.M. Tsontos, D.A. Kiefer

Planning for OBIS: examining relationships with existing national and international biodiversity information systems (2.2 MB pdf)
M. Fornwall

H-OBIS: A historical dimension to the ocean biogeographical information system (560 KB pdf)
D.J. Starkey, P. Holm, T. Smith, R. Francis, H. Rozwadowski

The Pacific Ocean and global OBIS: a New Zealand perspective (2.5 MB pdf)
D.P. Gordon

Developing species information systems: the European Register of Marine Species (ERMS) (2.6 MB pdf)
M.J. Costello

The synthesis of dynamic and historical data on marine populations and communities; putting dynamics into the Ocean Biogeographical Information System (OBIS) (864 KB pdf)
R.A. Myers

Biological data and metadata initiatives at CSIRO Marine Research, Australia, with implications for the design of OBIS (1.5 MB pdf)
T. Rees, K. Finney

Electronic atlas of sea anemones: an OBIS pilot project (1.3 MB pdf)
D.G. Fautin

World-side ocean optics database (WOOD) (1.7 MB pdf)
J.H. Smart

MARBID: NOAA/NMSF's (US) marine biodiversity database (1 MB pdf)
M.F. Mickevich, B.B. Collette

REGULAR ISSUE FEATURES

Opportunities and challenges for Mexico-U.S. cooperation in ocean sciences (444 KB pdf)
A. Ayala-Castañares, R.A. Knox

Geological perturbations and consequences of extreme and unexpected phenomena in the ocean (152 KB pdf)
J.P.M. Syvitski

Impact of extreme river events on the coastal ocean (2.7 MB pdf)
J. Imran, J.P.M. Syvitski

A Perfect Storm: formation and potential for preservation of storm beds on the continental shelf (2.2 MB pdf)
P. Wiberg

Icebergs and iceberg rafted detritus (IRD) in the North Atlantic: facts and assumptions (3 MB pdf)
J.T. Andrews

On the dynamics of subaqueous debris flows (2..7 MB pdf)
A. Elverhøi, C.B. Harbitz, P. Dimakis, D. Mohrig, J. Marr, G. Parker

DEPARTMENTS

QUARTERDECK (192 KB pdf)
R.W. Spinrad

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN (120 KB pdf)
J. Yoder

EDUCATION: In the Oceanography Classroom (248 KB pdf)
D.A. McManus

BOOK REVIEWS (1.5 MB pdf)