Volume 6, Number 2	Summer 1998

	Despite all the media attention, El Niño is only one actor on the global climate stage. Ocean temperature can influence several other kinds of long-term, global climate changes like La Niña, "decadal variability," and a flip-flopping climate phenomenon in the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Dr. Benjamin Giese and Dr. Ping Chang are among several Texas A&M oceanographers investigating these ocean-temperature influences on long-term climate changes. In the following articles, join us as we explore the relationship between the world's oceans and the changing global climate. Let's start with the Pacific Ocean ...	The Pacific Had enough of El Niño? Investigate two other causes of long-term climate change in the Pacific Ocean, including Niño's "little sister" La Niña and decadal variability. -- by Dr. Benjamin Giese The Atlantic What causes a flip-flopping climate on the tropical Atlantic coasts of northeast Brazil and West Africa? -- by Dr. Ping Chang
	Related articles: Corals and climate Like tree rings, coral layers reveal climate change > by Rahilla Shatto Tropical economies rise and fall with the rain > by Amy Warren	Were you born in an El Niño or La Niña year? View a timeline of these climate changes!
	Want to be an oceanographer? In this special section, experience a research cruise and get practical advice from graduate students and faculty about how you can prepare to study the ocean.
	Recent Graduates' articles: Radionuclide adsorption in the Kara Sea -- by Matthew R. Colmer Pollutants in shallow marine sediments -- by D. Craig Cooper
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