Carol A. Corbat received her B.S. in wildlife science from Purdue University, Indiana, in 1979, her M.S. in wildlife management from Pennsylvania State University in 1983, and her Ph.D. in forest resources (wildlife ecology) from the University of Georgia in 1990. Her doctoral research focused on the nesting ecology of American Oystercatchers, Least Terns, and Wilson’s Plovers on Georgia barrier islands. She worked for 4 years (1987–1991) for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Natural Heritage Inventory Program, before taking a teaching position at Louisiana State University at Alexandria in 1991, where she is currently a Professor of Biology, as well as Director of Institutional Research and Effectiveness. Current address: Louisiana State University at Alexandria, 8100 Highway 71 S, Alexandria, LA 71302. E-mail: ccorbat@pobox.lsua.edu.
Peter W. Bergstrom received a B.A. in biology from Bennington College, Vermont, in 1974 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in evolutionary biology from the University of Chicago in 1979 and 1982. His dissertation research (1979–1981) focused on incubation behavior in Wilson’s Plovers on the Texas coast. He has also done research on habitat preferences in banded snails, breeding biology of ravens, and water quality habitat requirements for submerged aquatic vegetation growth in Chesapeake Bay. He taught biology at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, for several years, and has taught biology and related courses at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, since 1990. He worked from 1989 to 1993 for Computer Sciences Corporation on contract to the Environmental Protection Agency Chesapeake Bay Program Office, analyzing water quality and other environmental data. He has worked since 1994 as a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Annapolis, where he does monitoring, restoration, and research on submerged aquatic vegetation, migratory fish, and other aquatic resources, and analyzes monitoring results so that they can be used in environmental management. Current address: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 177 Admiral Cochrane Drive, Annapolis, MD 21401. E-mail: peter_bergstrom@mail.fws.gov.
