Offshore oil and gas development in the Ross Sea, Dieter Beike; seasonal ice storage for cooling loads, Dwayne S. Breger; direct microbial conversion of lignocellulose to ethanol, David Anthony Hogsett; high temperature superconducting YBa2Cu307-x films, Q.X. Jia and W.A. Anderson; modelling of quasioptical Josephson oscillator, Bin Liu and Michael J. Wengler; thermal reaction chemistry of polycuclic alkylaromatics, C.Michael Smith.