<b>THE NAVIGATOR OF NEW YORK.</b> Wayne Johnston. 2002. New York: Doubleday; Toronto: Knopf. 486 pages; hardcover. ISBN 0-3855-0767-4. US$27.00

This is a daunting, information-packed book that gives a highly detailed picture of the latest research on the palaeoceanography of the Norwegian and Greenland seas and their modern role in ocean climate change.As the editors state in the preface, 'The northern North Atlantic is the key region in the modern global thermohaline circulation system of the ocean.'To explore the role of these seas, and their influence on the changing European climate, the German Science Foundation (Sonderforschungsbereich or SFB) was enlightened enough to fund a longterm interdisciplinary research project -SFB313, entitled 'Global environmental change: the northern North Atlantic' -which lasted from 1985 to 1998.Not only were considerable direct funds made available to German research groups on a long-term basis, allowing such luxuries as systematic programmes of research cruises, but also the programme stimulated co-funding from other sources (for example, the European Union), so that its beneficial effects extended far beyond the direct spending and far beyond the borders of Germany.One wishes that the research councils of other European nations could take a similar long-term approach to supporting such important areas of climate science.The book represents a report on the projects supported by SFB313, and comprises 25 chapters by groups (sometimes large groups) of scientists reviewing the progress made in particular areas.There is a focus on the palaeoceanographic record as revealed by sediments, but many other areas are covered, including modern-day oceanography, sea ice, plankton, and benthos.The book begins with a review of the northern North Atlantic by the editors, followed by an excellent overview by Ramseier and others of sea-ice conditions in the Greenland Sea (Ramseier, a Canadian, was a guest scientist on SFB313).Then comes a series of chapters based on the work of the various SFB313 working groups, in each case prefaced by an overview followed by specialist chapters.Noji and others give the overview on processes of carbon production, export, and remineralization in the seasonally ice-covered Greenland Sea based on long-term sediment traps, followed by two chapters by Peinert and others on specialised results from the Norwegian and Greenland seas, respectively.Schröder-Ritzrau and others write on how oceanographic domains in the region are distinguished on the

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