MEETING BRIEFS:
Ocean Scientists Find Life, Warmth in the Seas
Robert Irion
SAN DIEGO --About 2000 marine scientists gathered here at the 1998 Ocean Sciences Meeting from 9 to 13 February, during a relatively sunny respite from the El Niño-driven storms that have battered California. At the biennial gathering, hosted by the American Geophysical Union and the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, El Niño for once took a back seat to other explorations of the state of the world's oceans and the life they contain.