ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Special thanks are extended to the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for their generous support of the marine alien species workshop; thanks are also extended to the Honolulu Laboratory, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service for support of publication of this guidebook, and to the Waikiki Aquarium for hosting the second day of the Alien Species Workshop on 19 May 2001. Much of the work presented here was originally supported by the Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative to Bishop Museum and the Department of Botany, University of Hawaii. This guide could not have been completed without the efforts of the Department of Natural Science, Bishop Museum and the Department of Botany, University of Hawaii-Manoa.