Proceedings of a workshop on alkenone-based paleoceanographic indicators

The papers in this theme derive from a workshop on alkenone-based paleocean ographic indicators held at the J. Erik Jonsson Center of the National Acad emy of Sciences in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, October 3-6, 1999. The papers fall into two groups: "position papers" prepared in advance of the worksho p by the leaders of six different working groups and "reports" prepared dur ing and after the workshop by rapporteurs and members of the working groups . Their publication here is intended to provide a record of the discussions and thus to serve the paleoceanographic community. An overview of the conf erence and its participants is also provided.