Lauretta Burke is a Senior Associate in WRI’s People and Ecosystems Program.

Zachary Sugg is a Research Associate in WRI’s People and Ecosystems Program. 

This data CD was made possible through the generous contributions of the United Nations Foundation and the US Agency for International Development under the International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN) Mesoamerican Reef (MAR) project.

The World Resources Institute gratefully acknowledges the many partner organizations and colleagues who contributed to this project and the production of this data CD, including core ICRAN partners: UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC), and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

Thanks to Emil Cherrington (Belize Coastal Zone Management Institute and Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean, CATHALAC) for data development and guidance on spatial data issues; Joep Luijten (consultant to UNEP-WCMC) and Lera Miles (UNEP-WCMC) for land-use scenario modeling; Eric van Praag (consultant to UNEP-WCMC) for facilitating the project\'s policy and training workshops; Liza Agudelo and Armeid Thompson (ICRAN MAR project); and Kristian Teleki and Nic Barnard (ICRAN) for encouragement and support throughout.

Thanks to Will Heyman and Shin Kobara (Texas A&M University) for assisting with calibration of the hydrological model, and to Jamie Carter and Dave Eslinger (US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration) for providing guidance on implementation of the N-SPECT model.

Thanks to Claire Paris, Laurent Cherubin, Christopher Kuchinke, and Johnathan Kool (University of Miami) for adapting a circulation model to examine sediment dispersion along the Mesoamerican Reef; and to Nestor Windevoxhel and Alejandro Arrivillaga (The Nature Conservancy) for jointly supporting the circulation modeling.

Thanks to Ramon Frutos (Belize Meteorological Department) for data on hurricane events and Jan Meerman (Belize Tropical Studies) for data on land cover and watersheds. Thanks to the World Bank / GEF Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System (MBRS) project for identifying N-SPECT as a useful tool.

Thanks to Melanie McField (WWF and Smithsonian Institution) for constructive comments and guidance on impacts to the MAR; and Jose Vasquez, Sylvia Marin, Shalini Cawich and Gina DeFerrari (WWF) for their helpful collaboration under the ICRAN partnership. Thanks to Serge Andrefouet for provision of coral reef data for the MAR.

Thanks to Suzie Greenhalgh, Daniel Prager, Janet Ranganathan, Isabel Munilla, and David Jhirad (WRI) for their valuable review and comments; and to Jenny Guiling (WRI) for provision of data for calibration of model results. Thanks to Ron Valenzuela (WRI) for editing the document and special thanks to Carolina de Rosas and Ruth Nogueron (WRI) for translating this paper into Spanish.

This data CD was made possible through support provided by the office of Guatemala-Central American Programs, U.S. Agency for International Development, under the terms of Grant no. 596-G-00-03-00163-00. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Agency for International Development or of UNEP.