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Participating organizations and their respective involvement in the project are listed below:

Project Sponsor

Effects Of Climate Change On Ecosystem Services Provided By Coral Reefs And Tidal Marshes
FY 2004 Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Program
National Center for Environmental Research

Project Partners

Chris Craft, Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Project Role: Dr. Craft is the Principal Investigator for the project. He will oversee coordination of field sampling, GIS & modeling. He also will be in charge of the soils & marsh nekton work. The Craft Lab is equipped with gamma spectrometer for ¹³⁷Cs and ²¹⁰Pb analysis, Perkin-Elmer CHN analyzer, UV/visible & atomic absorption spectrophotometers and wet lab space for soil digestions. The Craft Lab also will work to identify and statistically analyze marsh epifauna data from permanent plots in the ten GCE LTER marshes for years 2000-present.
Office Locations: Bloomington, Indiana
Web Site: http://www.indiana.edu/~speaweb/fcltydir/craft.html

Mandy Joye, University of Georgia, Department of Marine Sciences
	Project Role: Dr. Joye will supervise the CO₂, CH₄ and denitrification analyses. Her group will be responsible for quantifying sediment fluxes of CO₂ and CH₄, for determining denitrification rates and for conducting laboratory experiments to determine the environmental and physiological factors controlling microbial activity in sediments. Office Locations: Athens, Georgia Web Site: http://www.marsci.uga.edu/FacultyPages/Joye/index.html
Steve Pennings, University of Houston, Department of Biology and Biochemistry
	Project Role: Dr. Pennings will supervise measurements of macrophyte production & diversity. He also will oversee statistical and time series analysis of climate and vegetation data from the GCE LTER permanent plots. Pennings is the Co-PI of the GCE LTER and will coordinate efforts between the LTER and this project. Office Location: Houston, Texas Web Site: http://www.bchs.uh.edu/~steve/

Dick Park, Eco Modeling
ECO MODELING	Project Role: Dr. Park, who developed the Sea Level Rise Affects Marshes Model (SLAMM), will direct model refinements and simulations of changes in marsh area and type in response to sea level rise scenarios for the three study watersheds and the Georgia-South Carolina coast. Office Locations: Diamondhead, Mississippi Web Site: http://www.myweb.cableone.net/dickpark/Park.htm
Jonathan Clough, Warren Pinnacle Consulting, Inc.
WARREN PINNACLE CONSULTING	Project Role: Mr. Clough, the current SLAMM steward and coding expert, will perform the model refinements and the simulations for the project. Office Location: Warren, Vermont Web Site: http://www.warrenpinnacle.com/prof/index.html
Jeff Ehman, Image Matters LLC
	Project Role: Dr. Ehman will provide wetlands and elevation geospatial inputs for SLAMM, develop the ecosystem services scaling model, and will develop and maintain this website, web-mapping services, and metadata for the project. Office Location: Bloomington, Indiana Web Site: http://www.imagemattersllc.com