We thank the captains and crews of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutters White Heath and Marcus Hannah for their outstanding logistical support for this measurement program. The USGS and the USCG safely conducted over 40 cruises to deploy and recover hundreds of individual instruments on over 100 moorings to obtain this long-term data set. Mike Bothner was chief scientist on the USCG cruises. Fran Lightsom oversaw and processed the time-series data. Soupy Alexander wrote most of the Matlab scripts, made all of the plots and calculations and assembled the data report. William Strahle, Marinna Martini, and Jon Borden oversaw the preparation and deployment of the physical oceanographic instrumentation. Dann Blackwood took most of the photographs in this report. Bob Barton, Dann Blackwood, Jon Borden, Michael Casso, Jessica Cote, Ray Davis, Peter Gill, Joe Newell, Carol Parmenter, Andre Ramsey, Rick Rendigs, and Richard Signell carried out the work at sea, ashore, and in the laboratory. Rick Rendigs, Dan Blackwood, Larry Ball, Steve Cross, and Ken Parolski aided in the successful recovery of several bottom tripod systems by diving when the primary recovery system failed. Mike Connor, Ken Keay, Wendy Leo, Mike Mickelson, and Andrea Rex provided encouragement and support from MWRA. John Warner and Mike Mickelson provided useful reviews of this report. Frank Marachi, Captain of the fishing vessel Christopher Andrew, provided assistance and valuable local knowledge on a number of cruises. This research was partially supported by a Cooperative Research Agreement between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority.

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