About the Authors

Donald F. Boesch is a marine biologist at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science of the University of Virginia and a member of the Department of Marine Science at both the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary. He was a Federal Water Pollution Agency Predoctoral Fellow in water pollution research and a Fulbright-Hays Postdoctoral Fellow in marine ecology at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. His research interests include marine ecology, particularly benthic ecology, and pollution ecology.

Carl H. Hershner is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Virginia in marine biology. His research involves the study of chronic oil pollution of salt marshes in the Chesapeake Bay.

Jerome H. Milgram is a member of the Department of Ocean Engineering of MIT and specializes in the hydrodynamic aspects of ocean engineering, particularly those concerned with water waves. He is the designer of the U.S. Coast Guard High-Seas Lightweight Oil Pollution Containment Barrier and has had a major role in the at-sea testing of the barrier. He has also been responsible for measurements of the barrier's performance and the sea state in the tests of the barrier and oil recovery system. He has written extensively on the hydrodynamics of pollution control and the aerodynamics of sails.