536 



200 



see also Oceanographer of the 



Navy; Office of Naval 



Research 

 Nimbus 7, 40 



North Atlantic Ocean, 59, 97 

 North Sea, 96 

 Numerical analysis, see 



Algorithms; Models and 



modeling 

 Nutrient transport, 58, 69, 70, 96- 



97, 110-111 

 see also Food v^ebs 



O 



OCE, see Division of Ocean 



Sciences 

 Ocean color, 40, 42, 61, 152 

 Ocean Drilling Program (ODP), 31, 



32, 89, 93 

 Ocean margins, see Continental 



shelf and margins 

 Oceanographer of the Navy, 33-34, 



106, 164 

 Oceanography from Space 1985- 



1995, 150 

 Ocean Studies Board (OSB), 31-32, 



44 

 oceanographer survey, 126, 128- 



133 

 Office of Health and 



Environmental Research, 



DOE, 42, 44 

 Office of Naval Research (ONR), 



8-9, 10, 19, 24, 28, 30, 32, 33, 



93, 140, 143, 163 

 Office of Naval Technology, 33, 34 

 Office of Research and 



Development, EPA, 38 

 Off-ridge processes, 85-87 

 Offshore Geologic Framework, 



uses, 45 

 Oil resources, 16, 17, 38-39 

 Oil spills, 16 



Operational measurements, 41-42 

 Optical instruments, 105 



INDEX 



Organic matter, 66, 69, 72-73, 95, 

 119 

 see also Food webs 

 Outer Continental Shelf, 38-39 

 Oxygen and oxidation, 66, 69, 71 



Pacific Ocean, 101, 103 

 Paleoceanography, 48, 65-66, 73, 



77, 79, 89-92 

 Particle dynamics and transport, 



67, 68, 69-71, 75-76 

 organic matter, 98, 119 

 sediments, 76-77, 119-120 

 Peer review systems, 19, 31, 32, 



38-39, 45 

 Petroleum, see Oil resources 

 Ph.D. -level scientists, 121-139 

 Photochemical reactions, 68 

 Photosynthesis, 57-58, 72, 97, 100 

 Physical sciences, 33, 52-64 



see also Geochemistry 

 Plankton, 58, 62, 69, 70-71, 97-99, 



101-102, 105 

 Plate tectonics, see Crustal plates 



and movement 

 Polar regions, 59, 60 

 Policy issues, 4-9, 17, 38-39 

 Pollution, 15, 16, 17, 37, 68 

 Population size and growth, 15, 



17, 108 

 Precipitation, 60, 64, 100-101 

 Predictions, see Models and 



modeling 

 Private research, 24, 125, 142 

 Publication of research, 38-39, 44- 



45 



R 



Radiation, 43, 44, 60, 62 

 Rainfall, 60, 64 

 Reducing Risk, 37 

 Remotely operated vehicles, 149 

 Remote sensing, see Space-based 

 observation systems 



