20 April 2005:

• National Geographic will be airing four 1-hour segments on the "Strange Days on Planet Earth" On Wednesdays, April 20 and 27 at 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. This should be shown on local PBS stations. One of the local NOAA oceanographers at Hatfield Marine Science Center, Bill Peterson, is interviewed in "The One Degree Factor" episode. Bill also is a former US GLOBEC SSC Member and active researcher. Rumor has it he is wearing his GLOBEC hat throughout his segment!

30 December 2004:

• DRAFT NSF Announcement of Opportunity is posted soliciting proposals in support of Synthesis in the Northwest Atlantic/Georges Bank Program and the Northeast Pacific/Coastal Gulf of Alaska Program.   This is posted with the caveats that this AO is not final and the dates may change.

11 March 2004:

• USGLOBEC Funded Contributions List updated to include most recently assigned contribution numbers of scientific reports and manuscripts acknowledging USGLOBEC funding support.

27 November 2003:

• DRAFT NSF Announcement of Opportunity posted soliciting proposals in support of the Northeast Pacific Program (NEP) Phase III - Synthesis for the California Current System.

• USGLOBEC Funded Contributions List updated to include most recently assigned contribution numbers of scientific reports and manuscripts acknowledging USGLOBEC funding support.

• Meeting Calendar updated with numerous new additions for 2004 ....

20 August, 2003:

• "Notes from the Field" section updated to include links to preliminary data plots and daily field reports from May and mid-summer cruises aboard the R/V Wecoma in the Gulf of Alaska ....

• Meeting Calendar updated ....

20 April, 2003:

• Meeting Calendar is updated to include several additional entries for 2003 (plus preliminary information for 2004) ....

8 August, 2002:

• On-line versions of eight individual articles from Issue 15(2) of Oceanography, the quarterly magazine of The Oceanography Society, are made available on this site. Chronicling the background, research objectives, and future goals of the various component parts of U.S. GLOBEC, these summaries are meant to complement / update the existing program descriptions archived at GLOBEC-at-a-Glance, and provide an excellent programatic status report ....

• The U.S. GLOBEC web suite, formerly hosted by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES), Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL), has now been successfully transferred to its new home at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; all existing features should continue to be accessible as before ....

28 April, 2002:

• NSF / Division of Ocean Sciences, in cooperation with U.S. GLOBEC, announces a funding opportunity for implementing three-dimensional meso-scale surveys in the Coastal Gulf of Alaska (CGoA) during 2003 ....

• "Notes from the Field" section updated to include weekly photos / text sent by Dr. Se-jong Ju, a lipid biochemist at the University of Maryland, who is reporting from aboard the R/V Laurence M. Gould off Antarctica ....

12 March, 2002:

• Minutes from the Fall, 2001 semi-annual meeting (Woods Hole, MA) of the Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) are now available ....

• A link to ongoing research and development of the Optical Plankton Counter was added to the 'Notes From the Field' section ....

16 February, 2002:

• The U.S. GLOBEC research community was extensively represented at the Ocean Sciences 2002 meeting held recently in Honolulu, HI. Links to meeting abstracts of specific oral presentations and posters highlighting USGLOBEC- sponsored research were compiled by region and posted here:
  • Research results from the NE Pacific / N Gulf of Alaska Region

  • Research results from the S Ocean / W Antarctic Peninsula Region

  • Research results from the NW Atlantic / Georges Bank Region

• Meeting Calendar updated to include numerous 2002 Upcoming Meeting Dates and Locations ....