CRSSA would like to thank Mike Kennish for editing the report manuscript. The support of Mike DeLuca (Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences) throughout the entire project has been greatly appreciated. We would also like to extend our thanks to Don Field and Ed Bright of the NOAA C-CAP for their assestance in ground truthing the land cover mapping effort. We acknowledge John Mackenzie and Kevin McCullough of the University of Delaware Spatial Analysis Lab for the use of the Delware land cover data. The submerged aquatic vegetation surveying of "Pete" McLain and Paul Bologna are most appreciated. Also, we thank the New Jersey Pinelands Commission, the United States Geological Survey, Ocean County Planning and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection for their respective contributions to our research.

Funding for CRSSA's habitat loss and alteration research was provided by the United States Environmental Protection Agency through the Barnegat Bay Estuary Program, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Coastal Change Analysis Program, the Trust for Public Land, and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station.