Beth Orcutt, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, United States, Diva Amon, Benioff Ocean Sciences Laboratory - UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, Steve Auscavitch, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, United States, Katy Croff Bell, Ocean Discovery League, Saunderstown, RI, United States, Jeffrey Drazen, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, United States, Cherisse Du Preez, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Deep-Sea Ecology Program, Sidney, BC, Canada, Val Finlayson, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States, Christopher R German, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Annette Govindarajan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology, Woods Hole, United States, Santiago Herrera, Lehigh University, Department of Biological Sciences, Bethlehem, United States, Julie A Huber, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, United States, Brian Kennedy, Ocean Discovery League, Saunderstown, United States, Lisa A Levin, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, Randi Rotjan, Boston University, Boston, United States, Samuel Soule, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, United States and Jason B Sylvan, Texas A&M University, Oceanography, College Station, United States