Editor – Jenny Carless
Graphic designer – Judy Anderson
Production artist – Chris Benzel
Reviewers – Dawn Hayes, Jen Jolly, Liz Love, Daphne White
Photographers – as noted, and all front and back cover photography NOAA/MBARI.

All cover photography is from the Davidson Seamount (see article, p. 9).

Front cover:
Top left: gorgonian, “bubblegum coral” (Paragorgia spp.) and purple polychaete worms (species unidentified); top right: sea cucumber (Benthodytes spp.); bottom left: big red jelly (Tiburonia granrojo); bottom center: fly-trap anemone (Hormathiidae); bottom right: halosaur (Aldrovandia spp.).

Back cover:
Left: crab (Neolithodes spp.); center: basket star (Gorgono-cephalus eucnemis) atop yellow sponges (species unidentified); right: tomopterid worm (species unidentified).

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We welcome comments, which should be sent to Dawn Hayes, Education Coordinator, at the address above.

Unless specifically stated, the views expressed in this issue do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, the National Marine Sanctuary Program, or NOAA.

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The Sanctuary thanks the following individuals and organizations for contributing their time and effort to this publication – as writers, reviewers, and advisors:

Ana Aguilar-Islas, Institute of Marine Sciences and Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz

Scott Benson, NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center

Roger Bland, Physics and Astronomy Department, San Francisco State University

Ken Bruland, Institute of Marine Sciences and Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz

Erica Burton, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Jason M. Cope, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

Lisa de Marignac, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Andrew DeVogelaere, Monterey Bay NationalMarine Sanctuary

William J. Douros, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Peter Dutton, NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center

Scott A. Eckert, Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute

Kim Fulton-Bennett, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Newell Garfield, Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies and Geosciences Department, San Francisco State University

Jim Harvey, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

John Haskins, Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve

Dawn Hayes, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Annette E. Henry, California Department of Fish and Game

Kevin T. Hill, California Department of Fish and Game

Bridget Hoover, Monterey Bay Sanctuary Citizen Watershed Monitoring Network

Scott Kathey, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Lisa Kerr, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

Scott Kimura, Tenera Environmental

Jamie Kum, California Department of Fish and Game

Steve Lonhart, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Liz Love, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Huff McGonigal, Monterey Bay NationalMarine Sanctuary

Kriss Neuman, Point Reyes Bird Observatory

Hannah Nevins, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

Kelly Newton, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Dawn Osborn, Joseph M. Long Marine Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz

Jennifer Parkin, Monterey Bay National
Marine Sanctuary

John Pearse, Joseph M. Long Marine Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz

Holly Price, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Steve Ralston, National Marine Fisheries Service

Christy Roe, Joseph M. Long Marine Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz

Katie Siegler, Agriculture Water Quality Coordinator

John Smiley, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve

Richard Starr, University of California Sea Grant Extension Program

Kerstin Wasson, Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve