Acknowledgments

Support for this research was provided by the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). We wish to thank Bruce Carlisle, Dan Sampson, Todd Callaghan, and Bob Boeri from CZM for their collaboration in this project. We thank captain Daniel Nelson and crew of the research vessel Connecticutfor their expertise during data collection. We also thank Brian Buckowski, Wayne Baldwin, and Emile Bergeron from the USGS for their participation during the sampling survey. And we thank Kate McMullen, Larry Poppe, and Brian Buckowski from the USGS for their work to process and archive the sediment samples.