We would like to thank Captain Tom Hardy, the crew, and the shipboard scientific party of the JOIDES Resolution for working through very adverse conditions to collect and process the cores of Leg 178. We are grateful for the help and support provided by the ODP Bremen Core Repository during the August 1998 sampling and subsequent sample requests.
Thanks to Aaron McMahon and Liz Castenson (Environmental Careers Organization) for help with sample preparation and data presentation. Special thanks to Amy Leventar (Colgate University) for preparing the diatom slides. Many thanks to Jane Murray (Colgate University) for providing the counts of E. antarctica from the Palmer Deep. Thanks to Gene Domack and Fiona Taylor (Hamilton College) for providing the core X-rays of intervals C and D for examination. This research was helped by discussions with Harry Dowsett (USGS), Marty Buzas (Smithsonian Institution), and, especially, Amy Leventar (Colgate University). Harry Dowsett, (USGS), Anne Jennings (INSTAAR), Scott Starrett (USGS), Ellen Thomas (Yale), Amy Leventar (Colgate), and an anonymous reviewer provided suggestions that greatly improved the manuscript.