John C Priscu¹, Joel D Barker², Timothy Campbell³, Brent Craig Christner⁴, Christina Davis⁵, John E Dore⁶, Helen Amanda Fricker⁷, Christopher B Gardner⁸, David M Harwood⁹, Amy Leventer¹⁰, Wei Li¹, William B Lyons¹¹, Alexander B Michaud¹², Molly Patterson¹³, Brad E Rosenheim¹⁴, Matthew R Siegfried¹⁵, Mark L Skidmore¹⁶, Martyn Tranter¹⁷, Ryan Venturelli¹⁸, Trista Vick-Majors¹⁹, Bob Zook²⁰ and the SALSA SCIENCE TEAM, (1)Montana State University, Land Resources and Environmental Science, Bozeman, MT, United States, (2)Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, (3)Montana State University, Earth Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States, (4)Louisisana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (5)University of Florida, Microbiology and Cell Science, Gainesville, FL, United States, (6)Montana State University, Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States, (7)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (8)Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, (9)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (10)Colgate University, Geology, Hamilton, NY, United States, (11)Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH, United States, (12)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (13)Binghampton University, Binghamton, NY, United States, (14)University of South Florida St. Petersburg, College of Marine Science, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (15)Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, (16)Montana State Univ, Earth Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States, (17)University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, (18)Indiana State University, Earth and Environmental Systems, Terre Haute, IN, United States, (19)Michigan Technological University, Biological Sciences, Houghton, MI, United States, (20)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, United States