Participants

Arnold L. Gordon, Coordinator of the Columbia Jamaica Bay Program

Robin Bell, Suzanne Carbotte and Roger Flood - Geophysical Mapping of Submarine Environments

Ellen Hartig, Alexander Kolker and Vivien Gornitz - Investigations into Recent Salt Marsh Losses in Jamaica Bay

Dorothy Peteet and Louisa Lieberman - Paleoenvironmental History of Jamaica Bay Marshes

Arnold Gordon, Robert Houghton and Bruce Huber - Temperature, Salinity and Currents in Jamaica Bay; Dye Tracer Experiments in Jamaica Bay

James Rubenstone - Stable Isotope Evidence for Water Mass Mixing in Jamaica Bay

Renee Takesue and Alexander van Geen - Patterns of Nutrient Enrichment and Depletion in Jamaica Bay

Chris Langdon - Trophic Status of Jamaica Bay: Spatial and Temporal Patterns

Ray Sambrotto - Nitrogenous Nutrients and Plankton Production in Jamaica Bay

Acknowledgements

Funding for this project was provided under a joint effort of the US National Park Service/Gateway National Recreation Area and the Earth Institute of Columbia University. We are grateful to the National Park Service and US Park Police for providing logistics support during the field work. Initial water sampling and coring were carried out from Park Service vessels operated by C. Kurztke and M. Ringenary of NPS. Dye injection, CTD surveys and additional water sampling were conducted on board a US Park Police vessel. We gratefully acknowledge the courteous and professional assistance rendered by Sgt. Grant Arthur of the Park Police and his fellow officers and dive team, and their commanding officer, Maj. Tom Wilkens, for providing access to the Park Police facilities.

Jay Ardai, Martha Bryan, Sara Green, Jen Hoesktra, Hadas Kushnir, and Bonnie Mace assisted with data collection and sample analysis.