Jay Pearlman, FourBridges, Port Angeles, WA, United States, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Alfred Wegener Institut, Helmholtz Zentrum fūr Polar- und Meeresforschung, HGF-MPG Joint Research Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Bremerhaven, Germany, Frank Muller-Karger, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, Emma Heslop, UNESCO Paris, GOOS, Paris Cedex 15, France, Mark Bushnell, US IOOS, Virginia Beach, VA, United States, Pauline Simpson, Central Caribbean Marine Institute Cayman Islands, Little Cayman, Cayman Islands, Peter Pissierssens, IODE, Oostend, Belgium, Johannes Karstensen, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Res, Kiel, Germany, Juliet Clair Hermes, South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), Cape Town, South Africa, Crisitian Munoz, SOCIB, Palma, Spain, Rachel Przeslawski, Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia, Nicholas Roden, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway and Francoise Pearlman, FourBridges, Seattle, WA, United States