Acknowledgments

Funding for this research was provided by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coastal and Marine Geology Program and the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM). We thank Susan Snow-Cotter and Tony Wilbur of CZM for their encouragement and support.   Lt. Cdr. Andrew Beaver and Capt. Emily Christman of NOAA National Ocean Service facilitated the acquisition and use of the NOAA hydrographic datasets. Brian Andrews, Dann Blackwood, Jane Denny, Dave Foster and Barry Irwin of the USGS assisted in the sampling cruise. We thank Brian Andrews, Jane Denny and VeeAnn Cross for their help in processing data and preparing this report. Donna Newman arranged this document in HTML. This manuscript benefited from reviews by Jane Denny, Mike Bothner, and Tony Wilbur.

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