30, 20, and 10 Years Ago in OPN

“The overall goal of oceanic optics research is to develop the capability to predict underwater light fields … The greatest hindrance to progress in understanding the oceanic optical environment is the lack of comprehensive data sets, i.e., simultaneous measurements of IOPs, AOPs and environmental conditions … In the next decade, the … increase in data quality and quantity, coupled with modern computing power and a stable source of funding for investigators, surely will result in an increased understanding of oceanic optics that will dwarf even the impressive progress of the last decade.”