To facilitate communication among micro‐computer users in the ocean science community, a special ocean computer bulletin board has been established in the OMNET, Inc., SCIENCEnet scientific electronic mail system. The bulletin board, called OCEAN.MICRO, operates on the GTE Telenet Telemail system and is available without charge to computer users who subscribe to SCIENCEnet through OMNET, Inc. The bulletin board allows scientists to exchange scientific information via compute