ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



We thank MMS for their active support. We especially thank Jerry Imm (Alaska 

 MMS) for his early appreciation of this technology and his perseverance in seeing its 

 continued support. We thank and acknowledge excellent working relationships with Jerome 

 Montague (COTR Alaska), Judy Wilson (COTR Atlantic), Bill Lang and Carol Fairfield, 

 (Washington, D.C.) for MMS guidance. We thank Cleve Cowles (Anchorage MMS), and 

 Robert Hofman (Marine Mammal Commission) for their encouragement, criticisms and 

 practical help; Bill Watkins, Doug Wartzok and Romaine Maiefski for previous assistance 

 in VHF studies; Cindy Ruhsam (University of Rhode Island, NOAA Remote Sensing Lab) 

 for sea surface temperature images, David Gaskin, Joe Geraci, Jeff Goodyear, Kathy Frost, 

 Lloyd Lowry, and Tony Martin for sharing technical advise; Randy Wells for collaborating 

 on dolphin tagging; June Wilson-Hench and Larry Hench (U. of Florida) and Mike Walsh, 

 Terry Campbell and Jack Pearson at Sea World, Orlando for BioGlass^ testing; and Veryl 

 Barry for office management and manuscript preparation. We thank Fred Biller for dart 

 development materials; Del Martin for gun advice and Bruce Sorte and Clem LaCava for 

 business management. A special thank you to Scott Kraus and the New England Aquarium 

 field crew for their help, use of facilities and enthusiastic support. 



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