LEONARD SHABMAN, Chair, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.

GREGORY B. BAECHER, University of Maryland, College Park

DONALD F. BOESCH, University of Maryland, Cambridge

ROBERT W. HOWARTH, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (through November 2002)

GERALDINE KNATZ, Port of Long Beach, Long Beach, California

JAMES K. MITCHELL, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg

LARRY A. ROESNER, Colorado State University, Fort Collins (through August 2003)

A. DAN TARLOCK, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, Illinois

VICTORIA J. TSCHINKEL, The Nature Conservancy, Altamonte Springs, Florida

JAMES G. WENZEL, Marine Development Associates, Inc., Saratoga, California

M. GORDON WOLMAN, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

JAMES K. MITCHELL, Chair, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg

MELBOURNE BRISCOE, Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Virginia

STEPHEN J. BURGES, University of Washington, Seattle

LINDA CAPUANO, Honeywell, Inc., San Jose, California

DENISE FORT, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

PORTER HOAGLAND, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts

DAVID H. MOREAU, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

CRAIG PHILIP, Ingram Barge Company, Nashville, Tennessee

JOHN T. RHETT, Consultant, Arlington, Virginia

RICHARD E. SPARKS, Illinois Water Resources Center, Urbana

BORY STEINBERG, Steinberg and Associates, McLean, Virginia

GREGORY B. BAECHER, Chair, University of Maryland, College Park

JOHN B. BRADEN, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

DAVID L. GALAT, University of Missouri, Columbia

GERALD E. GALLOWAY, Titan Corporation, Fairfax, Virginia

ROBERT G. HEALY, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

EDWIN E. HERRICKS, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

CATHERINE L. KLING, Iowa State University, Ames

LINDA A. MALONE, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia

RAM MOHAN, Blasland, Bouck & Lee, Inc., Annapolis, Maryland

MAX J. PFEFFER, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

DOUG PLASENCIA, AMEC, Phoenix, Arizona

DENISE J. REED, University of New Orleans, Louisiana

JAN A. VELTROP, Consultant, Skokie, Illinois

DONALD F. BOESCH, Chair, University of Maryland-Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge

HENRY J. BOKUNIEWICZ, University of New York, Stony Brook

RICHARD DE NEUFVILLE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

G. EDWARD DICKEY, Consultant, Baltimore, Maryland

HOLLY D. DOREMUS, University of California, Davis

FREDRICK HITZHUSEN, Ohio State University, Columbus

CARL H. HERSHNER, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, Virginia

FREDERICK J. HITZHUSEN, Ohio State University, Columbus

CHARLES D. D. HOWARD, Charles Howard Associates, British Columbia, Canada

WILLIAM R. LOWRY, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

BARRY R. NOON, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

THAYER SCUDDER, California Technology Institute, Pasadena

ROBERT W. STERNER, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

PETER R. WILCOCK, Chair, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

GAIL M. ASHLEY, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey

DENISE L. BREITBURG, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland

VIRGINIA R. BURKETT, U.S. Geological Survey, Lafayette, Louisiana

JOSEPH J. CORDES, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

ROBERT G. DEAN, University of Florida, Gainesville

JOHN A. DRACUP, University of California, Berkeley

WILLIAM J. MITSCH, Ohio State University, Columbus

ROBERT E. RANDALL, Texas A&M University, College Station

A. DAN TARLOCK, Chicago Kent College of Law, Chicago, Illinois

RICHARD G. LUTHY, Chair, Stanford University, Stanford, California

JOAN B. ROSE, Vice Chair, Michigan State University, East Lansing

RICHELLE M. ALLEN-KING, State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, New York

GREGORY B. BAECHER, University of Maryland, College Park

KENNETH R. BRADBURY, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, Madison

JAMES CROOK, Water Reuse Consultant, Norwell, Massachusetts

EFI FOUFOULA-GEORGIOU, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

PETER GLEICK, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, Oakland, California

JOHN LETEY, JR., University of California, Riverside

DIANE M. MCKNIGHT, University of Colorado, Boulder (through June 30, 2003)

CHRISTINE L. MOE, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

ROBERT PERCIASEPE, National Audubon Society, Washington, D.C.

RUTHERFORD H. PLATT, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (through June 30, 2003)

JERALD L. SCHNOOR, University of Iowa, Iowa City

LEONARD SHABMAN, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.

R. RHODES TRUSSELL, Trussell Technologies, Inc., Pasadena, California

KARL K. TUREKIAN, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

HAME M. WATT, Independent Consultant, Washington, D.C.

JAMES L. WESCOAT, JR., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

STEPHEN D. PARKER, Director

LAURA J. EHLERS, Senior Staff Officer

JEFFREY W. JACOBS, Senior Staff Officer

WILLIAM S. LOGAN, Senior Staff Officer

LAUREN E. ALEXANDER, Staff Officer

MARK C. GIBSON, Staff Officer

STEPHANIE E. JOHNSON, Staff Officer

M. JEANNE AQUILINO, Administrative Associate

ELLEN A. DE GUZMAN, Research Associate

PATRICIA JONES KERSHAW, Study/Research Associate

ANITA A. HALL, Administrative Assistant

JON Q. SANDERS, Senior Project Assistant

DOROTHY K. WEIR, Project Assistant

NANCY RABALAIS (Chair), Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Chauvin

LEE G. ANDERSON, University of Delaware, Newark

WHITLOW AU, University of Hawaii at Manoa

ARTHUR BAGGEROER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

RICHARD B. DERISO, Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, La Jolla, California

ROBERT B. DITTON, Texas A&M University, College Station

EARL DOYLE, Shell Oil (Retired), Sugar Land, Texas

ROBERT DUCE, Texas A&M University, College Station

PAUL G. GAFFNEY, II, National Defense University, Washington, D.C.

WAYNE R. GEYER, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts

STANLEY R. HART, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts

RALPH S. LEWIS, Connecticut Geological Survey (Retired), Hartford

WILLIAM F. MARCUSON, III, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers (Retired), Vicksburg, Mississippi

JULIAN P. MCCREARY, JR., University of Hawaii, Honolulu

JACQUELINE MICHEL, Research Planning, Inc., Columbia, South Carolina

JOAN OLTMAN-SHAY, Northwest Research Associates, Inc., Bellevue, Washington

ROBERT T. PAINE, University of Washington, Seattle

SHIRLEY A. POMPONI, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Fort Pierce, Florida

FRED N. SPIESS, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California

DANIEL SUMAN, Rosentiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Unviersity of Miami, Florida

SUSAN ROBERTS, Director

JENNIFER MERRILL, Senior Program Officer

DAN WALKER, Senior Program Director

JOANNE BINTZ, Program Officer

ALAN B. SIELEN, Visiting Scholar

ANDREAS SOHRE, Financial Associate

SHIREL SMITH, Administrative Associate

JODI BACHIM, Senior Project Assistant

NANCY CAPUTO, Senior Project Assistant

SARAH CAPOTE, Project Assistant