CBRSP was originally developed in 1988 by Larry Harding (now Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science), and Eric Itsweire (now Division of Ocean Sciences, National Science Foundation), both formerly of the Chesapeake Bay Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, Wayne Esaias of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and Kevin Kiley and Sam White at the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences. Several sponsors supported our initial flights using ODAS for remote sensing of ocean color on Chesapeake Bay, including Maryland Sea Grant College of the University of Maryland, NOAA CoastWatch, NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Recent sponsors of CBRSP studies with SAS II / III have included NASA SeaWiFS through the Ocean Biogeochemistry Program, NSF Land Margin Ecosystem Research (LMER), NOAA Coastal Ocean Program, Maryland Sea Grant College, EPA/NASA CISNet, NASA SIMBIOS, and EPA/NASA EaGLES. We are grateful to all of our sponsors for making the development and continuation of CBRSP possible. We would specifically like to thank: Lowell Bahner, Sue Banahan, Mary Culver, Bess Gillelan, Kent Hughes, Marcia Olson, and Judith Freeman of NOAA for many years of help and support; Chris D'Elia and Jon Kramer of Maryland Sea Grant who made CBRSP an important scientific program in Sea Grant; Tom Malone who has been a stalwart supporter of developing long-term data sets in estuarine and coastal systems; Don Boesch of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science who has been a strong and effective spokesman for expanded uses of the data and information we havedeveloped; Wayne Esaias, Chuck McClain, and many others at Goddard Space Flight Center without whom there would be no program; LMER TIES colleagues - Bill Boicourt, Walt Boynton, Steve Brandt, Ed Houde, Mike Kemp, Hans Paerl, Mike Roman; and CISNet - Bill Boicourt, Jeff Cornwell, Tom Malone, and Court Stevenson; Jeremy Werdell, Bryan Franz, Sergio Signorini, and Gene Feldman of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Kevin Sellner of the Chesapeake Research Consortium; Peyton Robertson and Derek Orner of the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office; Chuck Gallegos of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Bill Dennison of the Integration and Application Network, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science; Scott McLean, Marlon Lewis, and many others at Satlantic, Inc., Halifax, Nova Scotia, for excellent support and guidance throughout; numerous students and faculty research assistants who have participated on cruises in support of our flights; operators and pilots spanning 22years of aircraft remote sensing; and especially Sam White, pilot, whose dedication to this program and belief in our goals literally got us off the ground in the De Havilland "Beaver".