Individuals from outside the University of Oregon have also contributed to our collection include: Polly Dilley (Oregon Coast Aquarium), Diane Hanson (Alaska Office of History Archaeology, Anchorage), Jan Hodder (Oregon Institute of Marine Biology), Don Ivy (Coquille Indian Tribe), Barb Lagerquist and Bruce Mate (Hatfield Marine Science Center), Rich Osborne and Albert Shepherd (The Whale Museum, Friday Harbor), Jeff Picton (Chintimini Wildlife Refuge), Richard K. Nelson (anthropologist and author, Sitka, Alaska), Steve Kupillas (Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife-Newport), Rick Roland (Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife-Clackamas), Dave Pitkin (U.S. Fish & Wildlife-Newport), and David Yesner (University of Alaska Anchorage). It may have been frozen carcasses "gold-streaked" to us, the remains of dissection class, a cod shipped express mail, or some extras from a fishing trip. For it, we thank you!

For administering our permits, we thank Tammy Tate-Hall (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service), Brent Norberg, Kaja Brix, and Joe Cordero (National Marine Fisheries Service), Dale Nelson and Ray Rainbolt (Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife).

We are forever grateful for the wonderful work of Jeff Picton, Chintimini Wildlife Refuge, who transforms the carcasses into museum-quality specimens for us.

Those who have offered continued advice and loaned specimens from their collections include Virginia Butler (Portland State University), Ruth Greenspan (Heritage Research Associates), Jan Hodder (Oregon Institute of Marine Biology), William and Elizabeth Orr (Condon Museum of Geology, University of Oregon), and Charles Woodhouse (Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History).

Those who have provided financial or moral support here at the University of Oregon include Mel Aikens, William Ayres, Don Dumond, Tom Dyke, Marian Friestad, and Stead Upham (now President of Claremont Graduate University).

If we have mistakenly forgotten to include you in our acknowledgements, please email Madonna Moss at mmoss@oregon.uoregon.edu. Thanks!

We are most grateful to Vicki Silvers and Gabe Guss (Academic Web Publishing) for developing this webpage.