Acknowledgments 



Wilmot N. Hess, Director of NOAA's Environmental Research Laboratories, who in- 

 stigated and supported the scientific assessment of the 1976 event and conditions 

 contributing to oxygen deficiency and benthic mortalities in waters of the New York 

 Bight. 



Cynthia Williams, tc.i nical editor, Asheville, N.C. 



Stanley Chanesman and Ncal G. Millett, graphics editors, and Carol Cassidy. Marie 

 Eisel, Karen Hennckson, Maxine Pinto, and Joan Rapaport, illustrators, NOAA 

 Marine Ecosystems Analysis Program, New York Bight Project, Stony Brook, N.Y. 



Editorial Reviewers 



M. Grant Gross Christopher N. K. Mooers 



Chesapeake Bay Institute College of Marine Studies 



The Johns Hopkins University University of Delaware 



Baltimore, Md. Lewes, Del. 



Merton C. Ingham Chades A. Parker 



Atlantic Environmental Group Marine Ecosystems Analysis Program 



National Oceanic and Atmospheric National Oceanic and Atmospheric 



Administration Administration 



Narragansett, R.I. Stony Brook, N.Y. 



Bostwick Ketchum 



Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 



Woods Hole, Mass. 



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