Editor -- Jenny Carless
Graphic designer -- Judy Anderson
Production artist -- Chris Benzel
Reviewers -- Andrew DeVogelaere,
Dawn Hayes, Liz Love, Holly Price
Photographers -- as noted and:
Front cover: Peggy Stap/Monterey Bay
Whale Watch
Back cover: David Mattila

National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
299 Foam Street
Monterey, CA 93940
(831) 647-4201
http://www.montereybay.noaa.gov

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.

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

Josh Adams, U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center

Tara Anderson, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS-CMG) and NOAA Fisheries (NMFS, SWFSC), Santa Cruz Laboratory

Nancy Black, Monterey Bay Cetacean Project

Larry Breaker, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

Jennifer Brown, Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network (SIMoN)

Erica Burton, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Chris Coburn, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Brad Damitz, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Andrew DeVogelaere, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

William J. Douros, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Katherine Fenn, Miami University

Andrew Fischer, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Kenneth G. Foote, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Karen Grimmer, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Roger T. Hanlon, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole

Jim Harvey, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

Dawn Hayes, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Scott Kathey, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Irina Kogan, Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary

Steve Lonhart, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network (SIMoN)

Liz Love, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Baldo Marinovic, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz

David Mattila, Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary

Huff McGonigal, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Sean Morton, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Hannah Nevins, Beach COMBERS, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

John Pearse, University of California Santa Cruz Long Marine Laboratory

Holly Price, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Erich Reinecker, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Diane Richards, Monterey Bay Aquarium

John Ryan, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Katie Siegler, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Craig Syms, Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) and School of Marine Biology & Aquaculture, James Cook University of North Queensland

Kerstin Wasson, Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve

Stephanie Watson, Central and Northern California Ocean Observing System

Nick Welschmeyer, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories