Berkman Center Research Assistants Andrew Crocker and Kevin Tsai provided exceptional contributions to this briefing document, and June Casey contributed indispensable assistance with background research.
This technical assistance included background information on anticipated tidal conditions when the tsunami was set to arrive, wave height estimates from state-modeled scenarios for areas not covered by NOAA's forecast models, and clarifying which regions of the state were at greatest risk.
The authors wish to thank Michelle Greenlaw and Nick Wolff for constructing GIS figures, Ashley Holmes for assistance in background research, and Dr. Nancy Maciolek for providing us with derived benthic community parameters and species accumulation curves for the continental slope.
JC provided assistance on background studies, participated in manuscript preparation and editing.
YY and YW provided assistance on background studies, data interpretation and manuscript editing.
YY provided assistance on background studies, data interpretation and manuscript editing.
We thank the staff at the H.M. Fishbon Memorial Library at the University of California, San Francisco, for their assistance with background research and literature searches.
We are grateful to the students who helped us out in transcribing interviews, providing technical and administrative assistance or background input.
We also wish to thank Vittoria Lutje, Information Specialist, Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, for her help with the search strategy and Erin Klein, Dartmouth College student, class of 2013, for her assistance with background research.
Art Keller, a former C.I.A. officer who worked in Pakistan in 2006, said he had heard rumors after he left Pakistan in 2007 that Harakat was providing "background" assistance with logistics in moving and maintaining the Qaeda leader in Pakistan.
Time and again, we were told it would be inappropriate for Scotland Yard to give us any assistance, even on deep background.
