KENNETH BRINK, Chair,

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts

ALICE ALLDREDGE,

University of California, Santa Barbara

DAVID BRADLEY,

Pennsylvania State University, State College

DAN BROMLEY,

University of Wisconsin, Madison

OTIS BROWN,

University of Miami, Florida

JAMES COLEMAN,

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

CORT COOPER,

Chevron Petroleum Technology, San Ramon, California

CARL FRIEHE,

University of California, Irvine

RAY HILBORN,

University of Washington, Seattle

EDWARD HOUDE,

University of Maryland, Solomons

JOHN KNAUSS,

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California

ROBERT KNOX,

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California

RAY KRONE,

University of California, Davis

CINDY LEE,

State University of New York, Stony Brook

ROGER LUKAS,

University of Hawaii, Manoa

NANCY MARCUS,

Florida State University, Tallahassee

NEIL OPDYKE,

University of Florida, Gainesville

MICHAEL ORBACH,

Duke University Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, North Carolina

WALTER SCHMIDT,

Florida Geological Survey, Tallahassee

GEORGE SOMERO,

Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California

KARL TUREKIAN,

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

MORGAN GOPNIK, Director

EDWARD R. URBAN, JR., Senior Program Officer

DAN WALKER, Senior Program Officer

ALEXANDRA ISERN, Program Officer

SUSAN ROBERTS, Program Officer

ROBIN MORRIS, Financial Associate

LORA TAYLOR, Office Manager

SHARI MAGUIRE, Senior Project Assistant

JODI BACHIM, Project Assistant

ANN CARLISLE, Project Assistant

MEGAN KELLY, Project Assistant