ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 

	Agency	Grant or Contract Number
	Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary
	Chesapeake Bay Program, Environmental Protection Agency	CB983649-01-0
	Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, Coastal Resources Management Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	NA27OZ2355
	Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Coastal Zone Management Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	NA17OZ2337

We gratefully acknowledge the federal and state agencies who financially supported this project: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA); the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VA-DEQ) and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (MD-DNR) Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as amended, administered by the Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); and the School of Marine Science, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), College of William and Mary. Also, we thank the Norfolk - Southern Foundation for providing a private grant to VIMS in partial support of this work.

Acknowledgments would not be complete without commendation for the groups that provided ground surveys of SAV beds, which were used in conjunction with interpretation of the 2002 photography. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF), organized citizens and students to report locations and species composition of grass beds around the Bay for the SAV Hunt program. Jill Bieri of the CBF was responsible for compiling and tabulating the SAV Hunt ground survey data. Peter Bergstrom of the USFWS; Julie Bortz, Lee Karrh, Greg Kearns, Drew Koslow, and Cathy Wazniak of MD-DNR; Pierre Henkart of Severn River Commission; Chris Tanner of St. Mary's College of Maryland; and Terry Willis of Chesapeake College provided ground survey data for specific regions of the Maryland portion of the Bay.  Nancy Rybicki, Alfonso Lombana, Julie Baldizar, and Briget McArdle of the USGS Water Resources Division; Brian LeCouteur of Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; and Daniel Ryan of D.C. Department of Health (DCDOH), Fisheries and Wildlife Division; provided ground survey data for the Potomac River. Jill Bieri of the CBF provided ground survey data for the Gunpowder, Magothy, Potomac, Chickahominy, and Port Tobacco rivers. Ken Moore, David Combs, and Scott Marion of VIMS Department of Biological Sciences SAV Monitoring and Research Program, as well as Gretchen Arnold of VIMS provided ground survey data for the lower Bay.  Brian Sturgis of the NPS and Jay Woodward of the VMRC provided ground survey data for the Delmarva Peninsula coastal bays.  John Melton of Horn Point Environmental Laboratory provided ground survey data for the Delmarva Peninsula coastal bays, Choptank, and Honga rivers.

The production of this report required the dedication of numerous scientists, technicians, artists, photographers, and others. The following people deserve a note of thanks: Mike Fritz of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Mike Naylor of Maryland Department of Natural Resources (MD-DNR), and Peter Bergstrom of the USFWS. We are especially grateful to the dedicated VIMS personnel who contributed greatly to the production of this report: Jane Lopez, Kathryn Small-Davis, Connie Motley, Margaret Fonner of the Sponsored Programs office provided grant administration; Information Technology and Network Services provided computer services; and Regina Burrell and Maxine Butler of the Department of Biological Sciences provided secretarial and purchasing services.

Air Photographics, Inc., conducted the aerial photographic missions and was responsible for the high quality aerial photographs and scans.