Scale Upwelling and Primary Production -- On Regulation of Primary Production By Physical Processes The Ocean: Two Case Studies -- Lagrangian Simulation of Primary Production in the Physical Environment - The Deep Chlorophyll Maximum and Nutricline -- Oceanographic Criteria for New Phytoplankton Production -- Horizontal and Seasonal Variation of Density and Chlorophyll Profiles between the Azores and Greenland -- Seasonal or Aperiodic Cessation of Oligotrophy in the Tropical Pacific Ocean -- The Deep Phaeopigments Maximum in the Ocean: Reality or Illusion? -- Food Chains and Fisheries: An Assessment After 20 Years -- Recruitment Dependence on Planktonic Transport in Coastal Waters -- Space-Time Aspects in the Dynamics of Planktonic Stages -- Review of Oceanic Turbulence: Implications for Biodynamics -- The Northerly Wind -- Influence of Temporal Characteristics of Physical Phenomena on Plankton Dynamics, as Shown by North-West European Marine Ecosystems -- Spatial and Temporal Discontinuities of Biological Processes in Pelagic Surface Waters -- Production and Distribution of Nauplii and Recruitment Variability -­ Putting the Pieces Together -- Modelling of the Recruitment of Marine Species -- Simulation Studies of Fish Larval Survival -- The "Recruitment Problem" for Marine Fish Populations with Emphasis on Georges Bank -- Environmental Factors, Genetic Differentiation, and Adaptive Strategies in Marine Animals -- A Molecular Approach to Recruitment Problems: Genetics and Physiology -- The Replacement Concept in Stock Recruitment Relationship -- Large Marine Ecosystems as Global Units for Recuitment Experiments -- Why Study Fish Population Recruitment? -- Zooplankton - The Connecting Link: A Historical Perspective -- Scale Selection for Biodynamic Theories -- Biodynamics of the Sea: The Ecology of High Dimensionality Systems -- Bringing Physical and Biological Observations into Harmony -- Recent Advances and Future Directions in Multi-Disciplinary In Situ Oceanographic Measurement Systems -- Novel Applications of Acoustic Backscatter to Biological Measurements -- List of Participants -- List of Contributors.