Dr. Thomas Hurst is a Research Fishery Biologist in the Fisheries Behavioral Ecology Program of the NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center. He works from the AFSC seawater laboratory in Newport, OR. He also holds a faculty position in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State University. Jeffrey Short is the Pacific Science Director with Oceana, an international marine conservation organization. Prior to that, he retired after a 31-year career as a research chemist at NOAA, where he worked primarily on oil pollution and other contaminant issues. During his last two years at NOAA, Dr. Short launched a research effort aimed at determining the effects of ocean acidification on commercially important shellfish in Alaska.