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Carrie Culver
University of California, Santa Barbara
Marine Science Institute
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Kirk Fitzhugh
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History
Research and Collections Branch
900 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90007

Armand M. Kuris
University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Biological Sciences
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Roger Mann
College of William and Mary
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Mulluscan Ecology Group
Department of Fisheries Science
Gloucester Point, VA 23062

Elliott A. Norse
Marine Conservation Biology Institute
15806 NE 47th Court
Redmond, WA 98052

Greg Rouse
University of Sydney
School of Biological Sciences AO8
N.S.W. 2006
Australia

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 10, September 4, 1999, p. 151. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.