Leah J. Smith are policy associates in the Marine Policy and Ocean Management Program at the Woods Hole Oceano-graphic Institution. They and the other contributors offer perspectives shaped by backgrounds in the social and natural sciences, extension work, and government administration. Susan Peterson are policy associates in the Marine Policy and Ocean Management Program at the Woods Hole Oceano-graphic Institution. They and the other contributors offer perspectives shaped by backgrounds in the social and natural sciences, extension work, and government administration.