Coastal Cool-Down

Oceanographers made more than 2200 presentations at last month's Ocean Sciences Meeting from 11 to 15 February, sponsored by the American Geophysical Union and the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography. But three examples may give the flavor of the highly interdisciplinary Honolulu gathering: the “fingered, not stirred” mixing of the ocean, the “rotten steppingstone” route of mussels into the deep sea, and a mood swing in the North Pacific.