Acknowledgments 



We gratefully acknowledge and thank the many individuals without whose participation this monograph 

 may not have been published with the same quality, accuracy, and clarity. 



We thank the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the USSR State Committee for Hydrometeorology 



for their continued support. 



Steven Kohl and Stephanie Miller, the Coordinator and Associate Coordinator of US-USSR Programs, 

 US Fish and Wildlife Service (Office of International Affairs), have provided invaluable assistance 

 throughout every phase of this project. Their enthusiasm and energy given to this project, and the people 

 involved with this project, are outstanding. 



Without each participant of the expedition, and each author of research results, there would be no need 

 for a monograph. There are far too many to name here; however, their names are listed with each subchapter 

 and in Appendix A in this volume. It is their interest and excitement for the research presented here, and their 

 spirit of cooperation so necessary for an international project, that provide the essence of the scientific 

 accomplishments. 



We are indebted to each of the US and USSR chapter editors for their help and their patience with the 

 seemingly endless questions and tasks assigned to them, and last but certainly not least, for their sense of 

 humor which is often the only saving grace inputting together a volume of this magnitude. Their names are 

 listed alphabetically below: 



Sergei M. Chernyak Gregory J. Smith 



Cameron B. Kepler Alia V. Tsyban 



Mikhael N. Korsak Terry E. Whitledge 



Clifford P. Rice 



The "Production Team" at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center — Kinard Boone, Patricia A. Holt, 

 Susan A. Liga, Robert E. Munro, Patricia A. Nagel, and John C. Sauer — deserves recognition for their 

 dedication to meeting the challenge of producing a quality volume in time for it to be distributed to 

 participants on the 1992 Expedition. 



Harold J. O'Connor Alia V. Tsyban 



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