Preface Seiya NagaoShigeyoshi OtosakaHideki Kaeriyama Special Section: Editorial 26 September 2017 Pages: 527 - 527
Decline in radiocesium in seafloor sediments off Fukushima and nearby prefectures Masashi KusakabeNaohiko InatomiTakahito Ikenoue Special Section: Original Article Open access 19 August 2017 Pages: 529 - 545
Horizontal and vertical distributions of 137Cs in seabed sediments around the river mouth near Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Tadahiko TsurutaHisaya HaradaYasuyuki Hodotsuka Special Section: Original Article Open access 31 August 2017 Pages: 547 - 558
Processes affecting long-term changes in 137Cs concentration in surface sediments off Fukushima Shigeyoshi Otosaka Special Section: Original Article 28 March 2017 Pages: 559 - 570
Spatial variation in low-level 134Cs in the coastal sediments off central Honshu in the Sea of Japan: implications for delivery, migration, and redistribution patterns Mutsuo InoueH. UemuraS. Nagao Special Section: Original Article 26 July 2017 Pages: 571 - 584
Validation of gridded data set of global surface wind/wind-stress vector field Suguru KamedaKunio Kutsuwada Original Article Open access 29 March 2017 Pages: 585 - 601
Short-term variation in copepod community and physical environment in the waters adjacent to the Kuroshio Current Sayaka SogawaTakashi KidachiYugo Shimizu Original Article 03 April 2017 Pages: 603 - 622
Mapping the change of coral reefs using remote sensing and in situ measurements: a case study in Pangkajene and Kepulauan Regency, Spermonde Archipelago, Indonesia La Ode Muhammad Yasir HayaMasahiko Fujii Original Article 29 March 2017 Pages: 623 - 645
Comparison of carbon cycle between the western Pacific subarctic and subtropical time-series stations: highlights of the K2S1 project Makio C. HondaMasahide WakitaToshiro Saino Original Article 26 April 2017 Pages: 647 - 667
Distribution and stoichiometry of Al, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, and Pb in seawater around the Juan de Fuca Ridge Linjie ZhengTomoharu MinamiYoshiki Sohrin Original Article 28 March 2017 Pages: 669 - 685
Community patterns and temporal variation of picoeukaryotes in response to changes in the Yellow Sea Warm Current Zhimeng XuXue SongYang Yu Original Article 03 April 2017 Pages: 687 - 699
Imaging the Yellow Sea Bottom Cold Water from multichannel seismic data Hye-Jin MoonHan-Joon KimHyeong-Tae Jou Original Article 27 April 2017 Pages: 701 - 709