Francoise Pearlman, FourBridges, Port Angeles, WA, United States, George Percivall, Open Geospatial Consortium, Crofton, MD, United States, Jay Pearlman, IEEE, Seattle, WA, United States, Peter Pissierssens, IODE, Oostend, Belgium, Pauline Simpson, Central Caribbean Marine Institute Cayman Islands, Little Cayman, Cayman Islands and Siri-Jodha S Khalsa, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States