• OCEANS ON MARS: Carbonates' role in the chemical evolution of oceans on Earth & Mars
• 'Cetacean census' continues
• OGC photo contest
• Student Research
• Profile-Jay Pinckney

• Newly discovered seafloor channels formed by super-salty, flowing water
• Measuring the depths
• Year of the oceans
• Lavaca Bay's shallower sediments targeted for mercury pollution cleanup
• Oceanographers at work

• The ocean and global climate:
  • The Pacific Ocean: El Niño, La Niña and 'decadal variability cause long-term temperature changes
  • The Atlantic: Unusual tropical Atltantic ocean temperatures cause climate swings in Brazil and West Africa.
• Want to be an oceanographer? Experience a research cruise or get advice from graduate students and faculty
• Recent Graduates' articles:
  • Radionuclide adsorption in the Kara Sea
  • Pollutants in shallow marine sediment

• A whale of a task: Texas A&M scientists count marine mammals in the Gulf of Mexico
• Cetacean Census: How many marine mammals live in the Gulf of Mexico? Maybe more than you'd expect!
• Whale Watch: It's easy to find sperm whales in the gulf, once you know their favorite feeding spots.
• Marine policy fuels GulfCet surveys
• Cetacean sound off: Underwater mikes detect whales kilometers away
• Spin cycles: Winding path of warm water creates gulf's eddies

Winter 1997: Volume 5, Number 3

• Lair of the "Ice Worm": Hydrate dwelling worms are the latest addition to the inventory of remarkable animals living at hydrocarbone seeps in the gulf
• Gas hydrates: An energy source for the future?
• Life's Prospects: Where will we find it next?
• Ocean data for the people - TABS buoys send current measurements in real time
• Undergraduate students cruise Galveston Island
• Genetics of a marine invasion

• Coccolithophores: Far more in the Gulf of Mexico than previously thought
• Strength in numbers: Coccolithophores may be small but they can have big effects
• Tropical Storm Josephine damages Texas beaches
• OGC and Earth Day
• Gyre used to locate seafloor hydrocarbon seeps
• Graduates study bacteria at hydrocarbon seeps and the movement of sediment on the central part of the inner Louisiana Shelf

• Sea Vision: Why isn't water as clear as air, and what happens to underwater visibility when a hurricane passes?
• Ocean optics: Learn all about oceanographic instruments used to study the optical properties of water
• Tropical Storm Josephine damages Texas beaches
• A graduate students perspective on the costs of higher education
• Gyre is a weekend home to the undergraduate honors students
• Graduates study colloidally-bound metals in shrimp, a tiny reef fish, and tracking radionuclides over the Siberian Shelf

• Azerbaijan, oil, and sustainable development in the Caspian Sea
• Ecotoxicology in Azerbaijan
• Geographic Information Systems in action
• Meet Mandy Joye, a new faculty member in chemical oceanography
• Whale watch -- Gyre underway with GulfCet
• Graduates study Antarctic zooplankton and water masses

• Studying circulation over the Texas-Louisiana Shelf
• A model of wind-driven circulation and coastal upwelling on the Texas -Louisiana Shelf
• Meet Mead Allison, a new faculty member in geological oceanography
• The Gyre cruises North and South America with the TAMU²
• A student perspective on academic unemployment
• Graduates study colloids and toxic diatoms

• World Ocean Circulation Experiment: Studying the ocean's role in climate change
• Board an oceanographic cruise in the Antarctic!
• OGC reviews its recent activities
• Deep-water surveying in the Gulf of Mexico
• Sandy Drews wins the department's support staff award
• Graduates study Gulf of Mexico invertebrates, Pacific micro-phytoplankton, dissolved organic carbon, and cave ecology

• Using coral cores to study climate history in the northern hemisphere
• Down under... Out yonder: Science flourishes at the Flower Gardens
• Meet Achim Stössel, sea captain turned physical oceanographer
• The story of Room 1102
• TAMU² and new discoveries on the East Pacific Rise
• Graduates study acoustic oceanographic tools, Gulf of Mexico oysters, and bubbly sediments

• Nuclear contamination in the Russian Arctic
• An ecosystem's long-term response to contaminants
• A day at the beach with OGC
• Students and staff take a ride on the Gyre
• Graduates study phytoplankton and the flood of '93, the ecology of epizoites, and water-mass fronts along the Texas coast

• Impact of the Aswan High Dam on the ecosystem of the southeastern Mediterranean
• Queen Hatshepsut and early oceanography
• Meet Ben Giese, new member of the physical oceanography faculty
• Involvement 601, an unlisted course
• Oceanography gets an endowed chair, the new Program of Study sees its first graduate, Greta Fryxell retires
• Graduates study current trajectories, stratigraphy and salt tectonics in the Alaminos Canyon, Pacific micro-phytoplankton, and the physical oceanography of the Ross Sea.

• TAMU-Galveston's Laboratory for Oceanographic and Environmental Research\Introducing the undergraduate Marine Science Program
• The Texas Institute of Oceanography
• REU students take the Gyre across the Gulf Stream
• Timing graduate study - How long should it take?
• Graduates study biomarkers of petroleum contamintation, foraminifera, petroleum biodegradation in estuarine sediments, CAT scanning marine sediment, and Antarctic krill

• Oysters and oceanography at A&M, the early years
• Monitoring mollusc health in Galveston Bay
• Women in oceanography - How does Texas A&M compare?
• Gyre begins her 20th year in service
• A graduate studies the Antarctic Circumpolar Current