Acknowledgements

This publication is a product of many years of work by numerous organizations and individuals. Those persons listed as contacts in the Table of Collaborating, Participating, and Supporting Agencies were particularly crucial in providing contaminant data and context information to the authors. The search for references was greatly aided by the efforts of K. O'Connell, C. Hurter, M. Lydon, and P. Nelson. Data entry was expedited through efforts of K. O'Connell, E. Margolis, J. Wolfe and O. McCall. We thank L. Poppe and J. Hathaway for their extensive contributions of sediment texture data and information. Funding for this project was provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal Marine and Geology Program and by the Gulf of Maine Regional Marine Research Program grant NOAA# GMR-06.