About the Guest Editors

**Richard Signell**

Dr. Signell is a research oceanographer at the US Geological Survey in Woods Hole, MA, USA. He holds his doctorate in physical oceanography from the MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program (1989). He has over 25 years experience in coastal ocean modeling and geoinformatics. He is author or co-author of 97 refereed articles, was the Chair of the 2011 Gordon Research Conference on Coastal Ocean Modeling and was the Chair of the 13th International Estuarine and Coastal Modeling Conference.

 **Henry Bokuniewicz**

Dr. Bokuniewicz is a Distinguished-Service Professor of Oceanography at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences of Stony Brook University. He holds his doctorate in Geophysics from Yale University (1976). He has over 30 years' research experience in the dynamics of coastal and estuarine processes. He is author or co-author of 130 refereed articles and over 100 other articles and reports.
