Yongsong Huang¹, Yuan Yao², William Michael Longo¹, Susanna Theroux³, Linda A Amaral-Zettler⁴, James T Dillon⁵, William J D'Andrea⁶, Karen Jiaxi Wang¹, Nora Richter¹, Richard S Vachula⁵, Yinsui Zheng⁷, Haichao Xie⁸ and Jiaju Zhao², (1)Brown University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (2)Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Xi'an, China, (3)Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, Costa Mesa, CA, United States, (4)Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (5)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (6)Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (7)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (8)Lanzhou University, MOE Key Laboratory of West China's Environmental System, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou, China