1. The United States Coral Reef Initiative: an overview of the first steps

   • M. P. Crosby
   • S. F. Drake
   • J. Wilson

   Guest Editorial Pages: 1 - 3

2. Stable isotopic signature of El Niño-Southern Oscillation events in eastern tropical Pacific reef corals

   • G. M. Wellington
   • R. B. Dunbar

   Reports Pages: 5 - 25

3. Reef Sites

   • P. Doherty
   • V. Dufour
   • S. Planes

   BriefCommunication Pages: 26 - 26

4. Leeward bank margin Halimeda meadows and draperies and their sedimentary importance on the western Great Bahama Bank slope

   • D. Freile
   • J. D. Milliman
   • L. Hillis

   Reports Pages: 27 - 33

5. A windward coralline algal ridge on Rocas Atoll, Atlantic Ocean

   • D. F. M. Gherardi Geology

   Reef Sites Pages: 34 - 34

6. Quantitative video sampling of coral reef benthos: large-scale application

   • J. H. Carleton
   • T. J. Done

   Reports Pages: 35 - 46

7. A field study of fish predation on juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish

   • H. P. A. Sweatman

   Reports Pages: 47 - 53

8. A device to enable multi-replicate measurements in dissolved oxygen respirometry

   • A. R. F. Montebon
   • H. T. Yap

   Reef Sites Pages: 54 - 54

9. Effects of a hurricane on survival and orientation of large erect coral reef sponges

   • J. L. Wulff

   Reports Pages: 55 - 61