Authors, Credits and Acknowledgments

Text by Peter J. Auster and Michael McKee

Photographs by Peter J. Auster, Robert E. DeGoursey, Robert Bachand, Edward Parry, and Eric Heupel

Image Scans and Manipulation by Jameson Gregg, Shawn Goulet, and Michael McKee

Web Page Design by Michael McKee, Peter J. Auster, and Elizabeth Doran

Funding for this web page was provided by the Long Island Sound Fund administered by the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), through the sale of Long Island Sound License plates and contributions.

This web page was produced with support from the National Undersea Research Center for the North Atlantic & Great Lakes at the University of Connecticut. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the State of Connecticut, NOAA or any of their sub-agencies.

The sediment distribution map was provided by L. Poppe of the U.S. Geological Survey in Woods Hole, Massachusetts: Poppe, L.J., H.J. Knebel, B.A. Seekins and M.E. Hastings. 2000. Map Showing the Distribution of Surficial Sediments in Long Island Sound. Georeferenced Sea-Floor Mapping and Bottom Photography in Long Island Sound. U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 00-304 (CD-ROM).

The authors would like to thank Mickey Weiss for providing species abundance figures, and Peg Van Patten and Dave Simpson for assistance with Long Island Sound facts. Nancy Balcom, Mary DiGiacomo-Cohen and Ralph Lewis contributed resources and editorial comments for the reading section of this project.