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James J. McCarthy
Harvard University
Museum of Comparative Zoology
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Michael C. MacCracken
National Assessment Coordination Office
400 Virginia Avenue, Suite 750
Washington, DC 20024

Jerry Melillo
Marine Biological Laboratory
Ecosystem Center
7 MBL Street
Woods Hole, MA 20506

Dennis Ojima
Colorado State University
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory
B229 Natural & Environment
Fort Collins, CO 80523

Martin Parry
University of East Anglia
Climate Research Unit
Norwich NR4 7TJ
United Kingdom

Cynthia Rosenzweig
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Center for Climate Systems Research
2880 Broadway
New York, NY 10025

Barry Smit
University of Guelph
Department of Geography
Guelph, Ontario N16 2WI
Canada

William Solecki
Montclair State University
Department of Earth and Environmental Studies
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043

Rae Zimmerman
New York University
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
4 Washington Square North
New York, NY 10003-6671

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 9, August 28, 1999, p. 136. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.