Acknowledgments

The multibeam echo-sounder surveys of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region and western Massachusetts Bay were conducted in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and with support from the Canadian Hydrographic Service and the University of New Brunswick. For their skillful work at sea, we thank G. Costello, N. Doucet, J. Gagne, R. Sanfacon, and B. Tessier of the Canadian Hydrographic Service, E. Radford of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the officers and crew of the survey vessel Frederick G. Creed. We also thank John Hughes Clark (University of New Brunswick) and Larry A. Mayer (University of New Brunswick, now at the University of New Hampshire) for their assistance with multibeam data acquisition, processing and interpretation. Valerie Paskevich assisted in preparation and editing of the metadata. Donna Newman arranged the document in HTML.