Much of the progress in understanding of ocean biogeochemical fluxes has been gained in a series of interdisciplinary field campaigns since the mid-80's. The model for these programs was Vertical Exchange Processes (VERTEX), coordinated by John Martin, and conducted in the north Pacific. Its results are still being published [ Harrison et al. 1992]. VERTEX was one of the first larger scale programs to focus on the couplings between new production and export, and pioneered the use of surface sediment traps. Other programs with a new production focus included the 1988 WECOMA cruise in the equatorial Pacific [ Barber, 1992], a predecessor of the JGOFS Equatorial Pacific (EQPAC), [ Murray et al., 1994] study; Research on Antarctic Coastal Ecosystem Rates (RACER) in the coastal zone of the Antarctic Peninsula [ Huntley et al., 1991], the SUPER (Subarctic Pacific Ecosystem Research) program in the north Pacific [ Miller et al., 1991; Miller, 1993], the 1988 Black Sea Expedition [ Murray, 1991] and the JGOFS North Atlantic Bloom Experiment (NABE,) [ Ducklow and Harris, 1993]. Results from the JGOFS time series stations at Bermuda and Hawaii have also begun to appear [ Lohrenz et al., 1992; Malone et al., 1993; Roman et al., 1993]. The results of these programs will form the basis for the first generation of coupled biogeochemical models now being developed.