U.S. GLOBEC (GLOBal ocean ECosystems dynamics) is a research program organized by oceanographers and fisheries scientists to address the question of how global climate change may affect the abundance and production of animals in the sea. The U.S. GLOBEC Program currently has major research efforts underway in the Georges Bank / Northwest Atlantic Region, and the Northeast Pacific (with components in the California Current and in the Coastal Gulf of Alaska). U.S. GLOBEC is a major contributor to International GLOBEC efforts now underway in the Southern Ocean and Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) .... U.S. GLOBEC is a component of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, with support from the: U.S. National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Coastal Ocean Program Office. U.S. GLOBEC Program Profiled in 'Oceanography' Magazine .... The potential consequences of climate change for earth systems, the effects of other anthropogenic impacts on marine ecosystems, and the possible interaction between climate change and human activities affecting the oceans are some of the issues U.S. GLOBEC scientists are addressing. To learn more about their work, read the latest news published recently in Oceanography, the official magazine of The Oceanography Society. Ongoing research in each of US GLOBEC's regional programs is described briefly by a participating scientist. Collectively, these profiles provide a review of the past, present, and future of the USGLOBEC program ....

Dr. Dale B. Haidvogel Inst. Marine & Coastal Science Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08901 E-mail: dale@imcs.rutgers.edu Tel: (732) 932-6555 x256 Fax:	Linda Lagle US GLOBEC National Coor. Office P.O. Box 1459 Leonardtown, MD 20650 (USA) E-mail: llagle@whoi.edu Tel: (301) 997-0853 Fax: (301) 997-0854
Robert C. Groman Data Management E-mail: rgroman@globec.whoi.edu