Credits

Principal Author
Michael Jasny

Project Director
Joel Reynolds

Copy Editing & Production Supervision
Sharene Azimi

Cover Art
Jenkins & Page (design)
Debbie Glockner-Ferrari (photo)

NRDC Director of Communications
Alan Metrick

Acknowledgments

This report was prepared by NRDC’s Marine Mammal Protection Project, under the direction of Joel Reynolds, Senior Attorney, in our Los Angeles office. NRDC wishes to thank the Homeland Foundation for its generous support of our work in this field, the Liz Claiborne and Art Ortenberg Foundation, the Sidney Stern Memorial Trust, and our 400,000 members, without whom our efforts to protect marine life and habitat would not be possible.

The authors would like to acknowledge the important contributions made by our colleagues Tammy Boyer, Sarah Chasis, Karen Garrison, Ann Notthoff, and Lisa Speer. Our thanks go to the many scientists, activists, and policymakers who generously shared their experience and expertise: Michel André, Charles Bookman, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, Bob Brownell, John Calambokidis, Ed Cassall, Phil Clapham, Dan Costa, Jeremy Davies, Jeannie Drevenak, Gerald d’Spain, Tom Eagle, Sylvia Earle, Michael Fisher, Pieter Folkens, Christopher Fox, Kurt Fristrup, Roger Gentry, Carl Gleaves, John Goold, Peter Haddow, Sean Hayes, John Hildebrandt, Bob Hofman, Ken Hollingshead, Susan Jordan, Darlene Ketten, Amy Knowlton, Charles Malme, Drew Mayerson, Robert Michaud, Patrick Miller, Eileen Milton, Art Myrberg, Richard Osborne, Katy Payne, Roger Payne, Art Popper, Lindsay Porter, W. John Richardson, Naomi Rose, Peter Scheifele, Henrik Schmidt, Greg Silber, Lisa Symons, Sean Todd, Peter Tyack, Ed Ueber, Lance Wall, Lindy Weilgart, Hal Whitehead, Suzanne Yin, and Sharon Young. Specialists in this area have reached different conclusions about undersea noise pollution, and their kind participation here should not be taken as an endorsement of ours.