Juanjo Danobeitia^1,2, Laura Beranzoli^1,3, Alan Berry⁴, Jérôme Blandin⁵, Mathilde Cannat⁶, Deborah Chavrit⁶, Laurent Coppola⁷, Eric Delory⁸, Joaquín Del Rio⁹, Davide Embriaco³, Paolo Favali^1,3, Maria Incoronata Fredella¹, Andrew Gates¹⁰, Susan Hartman¹⁰, Nadine Lantéri⁵, Giuseppe Magnifico¹, Jorge Miguel A Miranda¹¹, George Petihakis¹², Jaume Piera¹³, Vlad Radulescu¹⁴, Ivan Rodero¹ and Pierre-Marie Sarradin¹⁵, (1)EMSO ERIC, CMO, Rome, Italy, (2)EMSO ERIC, Rome, Italy, (3)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Roma, Italy, (4)Marine Institute, Galway, Ireland, (5)IFREMER, Plouzané, France, (6)CNRS-Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, France, (7)Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, Villefranche Sur Mer Cedex, France, (8)Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands, Observatory, Telde, Spain, (9)Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, SARTI-MAR, Barcelona, Spain, (10)NOC, Southampton, United Kingdom, (11)Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Lisboa, Portugal, (12)HCMR, Athens, Greece, (13)ICM-CSIC, Department of Physical and Technological Oceanography, Barcelona, Spain, (14)National Institute for Marine Geology and Geoecology - GeoEcoMar, Bucharest, Romania, (15)IFREMER, Brest, France