VIRGINIA H. GARRISON,^* EUGENE A. SHINN,^** WILLIAM T. FOREMAN,^*** DALE W. GRIFFIN,^**** CHARLES W. HOLMES,^** CHRISTINA A. KELLOGG,^**** MICHAEL S. MAJEWSKI,^***** LAURIE L. RICHARDSON,^****** KIM B. RITCHIE,^******* GARRIET W. SMITH<sup>********


*</sup>Virginia H. Garrison (ginger_garrison@usgs.gov) is a marine ecologist, at the US Geological Survey (USGS), 600 Fourth Street South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701.
^**Eugene A. Shinn and Charles W. Holmes are geologists, at the US Geological Survey (USGS), 600 Fourth Street South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701.
^***William T. Foreman is a research chemist at USGS National Water Quality Laboratory, Box 25046, Denver, CO 80225; he develops and applies methods to characterize the transport and fate of organic chemical contaminants in air, water, sediment, and biota.
^****Dale W. Griffin and Christina A. Kellogg are microbiologists at the US Geological Survey (USGS), 600 Fourth Street South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701.
^*****Michael S. Majewski is a research chemist at USGS, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819; his research interests include the environmental behavior and fate of organic contaminants, their long-range atmospheric transport and deposition, and the effects of air pollution on water quality.
^******Laurie L. Richardson is an associate professor in the Department of Biology, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199; her area of expertise is microbial physiological ecology, with a focus on the role of microorganisms in the etiology of coral diseases.
^*******Kim B. Ritchie is a scientist at MicroGenomics Inc., 5935 Darwin Court, Carlsbad, CA 92008; her research interests include molecular biology, marine microbial communities, and marine pathogens in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
^********Garriet W. Smith is an associate professor at the University of South Carolina–Aiken, 471 University Parkway, Aiken, SC 29801; he is a microbial ecologist interested in the ecology of marine microorganisms, particularly disease pathogens.