How good science and stories can go hand-in-hand.

HEATHER M. LESLIE,∗† ERICA GOLDMAN,‡ KAREN L. MCLEOD,§ LEILA SIEVANEN,† HARI BALASUBRAMANIAN,∗∗††† RICHARD CUDNEY-BUENO,†† AMANDA FEUERSTEIN,‡‡ NANCY KNOWLTON,‡‡ KAI LEE,†† RICHARD POLLNAC,§§ AND JAMEAL F. SAMHOURI∗∗∗ ∗Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, U.S.A. †Center for Environmental Studies, Brown University, Box 1943, Providence, RI 02912, U.S.A. ‡COMPASS, 9523 Clement Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910, U.S.A. §COMPASS, Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, 3029 Cordley Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331-2914, U.S.A. ∗∗Conservation International, 2011 Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA 22202, U.S.A. ††The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, 300 2nd Street, Los Altos, CA 94022, U.S.A. ‡‡Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. 20560, U.S.A. §§Department of Marine Affairs, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, U.S.A. ∗∗∗National Marine Fisheries Service National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Conservation Biology Division, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, 2725 Montlake Boulevard E., Seattle, WA 98112, U.S.A. †††EcoAdvisors, 1758 Henry Street, Halifax NS, B3H 3K6 Canada