MICHAEL W. BECK,^* KENNETH L. HECK,^** KENNETH W. ABLE,^*** DANIEL L. CHILDERS,^**** DAVID B. EGGLESTON,^***** BRONWYN M. GILLANDERS,^****** BENJAMIN HALPERN,^******* CYNTHIA G. HAYS,^******** KAHO HOSHINO,^******* THOMAS J. MINELLO,^********* ROBERT J. ORTH,^********** PETER F. SHERIDAN,^*********** MICHAEL P. WEINSTEIN<sup>************


*</sup>Michael Beck is director of the Coastal Waters Program at The Nature Conservancy and a research associate in the Institute of Marine Sciences, Center for Ocean Health, 100 Shaffer Road, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95060.
^**Kenneth Heck is a professor at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab and University of South Alabama, Dauphin Island, AL 36528.
^***Kenneth Able is director of the Rutgers University Marine Field Station, Tuckerton, NJ 08087, and professor in the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University.
^****Daniel Childers is associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199.
^*****David Eggleston is associate professor in the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8208.
^******Bronwyn Gillanders is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Environmental Biology at the University of Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia.
^*******Benjamin Halpern and Kaho Hoshino are graduate students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106; Halpern is in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, and Hoshino is in the Bren School for the Environment.
^********Cynthia Hays is a graduate student in the Department of Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064.
^*********Thomas Minello is chief of the Fishery Ecology Branch
^**********Robert Orth is a professor in the School of Marine Science, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, Gloucester Point, VA 23062.
^***********Peter Sheridan is a research ecologist in the National Marine Fisheries Service, at Southeast Fisheries Science Center Laboratory, National Marine Fisheries Service, 4700 Avenue U, Galveston, TX 77551.
^************Michael Weinstein is director of the New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium, Fort Hancock, NJ 07732. © 2001 American Institute of Biological Sciences.