Acknowledgments 
Authors 
The principal authors of Sections 1-3 (framework for aquatic stressor research) are members of 
the National Health and Environmental Effects Laboratory’s Aquatic Stressors Steering 
Committee, which is composed of representatives from the Office of Research and 
Development’s (ORD) Laboratories and Centers, Office of Water (OW), and Regional offices. 
Principal authors for Sections 4-8 (Research Implementation Plans for Habitat Alteration, 
Nutrients, Suspended and Bedded Sediments, Toxic Chemicals and Diagnostics) are members of 
work groups from NHEERL’s four Ecology Divisions: Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett, 
RI; Gulf Ecology Division, Gulf Breeze, FL; Mid-Continent Ecology Division, Duluth, MN; and 
Western Ecology Division, Corvallis, OR (see below). 
NHEERL Aquatic Stressors Steering Committee 
Mid-Continent Ecology Division (MED) 
Bob Spehar (Chair) 
Jack Kelly (Co-chair) 
Atlantic Ecology Division (AED) 
Jonathan Garber/Steve Schimmel 
Walter Berry 
Gulf Ecology Division (GED) 
Bill Walker 
Skeet Lores 
Western Ecology Division (WED) 
Walt Nelson 
Spence Peterson 
Neurotoxicology Division (NTD) 
Bob MacPhail 
Experimental Toxicology Division (ETD) 
Bob Luebke 
NHEERL Assistant Laboratory Director 
Jennifer Orme Zavaleta/Barbara Walton 
National Exposure Research Laboratory/Ecological Exposure Research Division (EERD) 
Susan Cormier 
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