ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Many people have contributed over the past decade to the success of HOT, but the vision and drive of Prof. David Karl has been critical to starting and sustaining the project. Prof. Eric Firing and Drs. Steve Chiswell and Fred Bingham have made important contributions to the development, maintenance and analysis of the physical observations. Fernando Santiago-Mandujano, Jefrey Snyder, Craig Nosse, Mark Valenciano and Don Wright actually made most of the measurements for the physical oceanographic component of HOT. Sharon DeCarlo made critical contributions to design and development of data acquisition and processing systems, and to data management and analysis. The HOT program is supported by the US National Science Foundation and by the State of Hawaii.
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