Enrique Montes¹, Gabrielle Canonico², Maria T Kavanaugh³, Patricia Miloslavich⁴, Eduardo Klein⁵, Benjamin Best⁶, Sennai Habtes⁷, Elva G Escobar-Briones⁸, Gregorio Bigatti⁹, Maikon Di Domenico Dr.¹⁰, Yasmina Shah Esmaeili¹¹, Guilherme Corte¹¹, Erasmo Macaya Dr.¹², Nuno Simões Dr.¹³, Edlin Guerra-Castro Dr.¹³, Carlos Barboza¹⁴, Ana Carolina Mazzuco¹⁵, Gil Rilov¹⁶, Nicolás Moity¹⁷, Maritza Cárdenas¹⁸, Cesar Cordeiro¹⁹, Eleonora Celentano²⁰, Edgardo Londoño-Cruz²¹, Daniela Yepes-Gaurisas¹⁵, Eulogio Soto²², Maria Gabriela Palomo²³, Juan Carlos Azofeifa²⁴, Brian Helmuth²⁵, Fernando Lima²⁶, Rui Seabra²⁶, Kristin Wilson-Grimes²⁷, Alana Jute²⁸, Omar Defeo²⁹, Angelica Gutierrez-Magness³⁰, James Emmett Duffy³¹, Jonathan Lefcheck³¹, Abigail Benson³², Tylar Murray³³, Daniel Brooks Otis³⁴ and Frank E Muller-Karger³⁴, (1)University of South Florida, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (2)U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Australia, (5)Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela, (6)EcoQuants, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (7)University of the Virgin Islands, Center for Marine and Environmental Studies, St. Thomas, United States, (8)National Autonomous University of Mexico, Limnology and Oceanography, Ciudad DE Armería, Mexico, (9)Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto de Biología de Organismos Marinos, Puerto Madryn, Argentina, (10)Universidade Federal Do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil, (11)Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, (12)Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile, (13)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Ciencias, Merida, Mexico, (14)Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (15)Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil, (16)Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Haifa, Israel, (17)Charles Darwin Foundation, Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Ecuador, (18)Universidad de Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador, (19)Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil, (20)Universidad de la República, Unidad de Ciencias del Mar, Montevideo, Uruguay, (21)Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, (22)Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile, (23)Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (24)Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, (25)Northeastern University, Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Nahant, MA, United States, (26)Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, (27)University of the Virgin Islands, Center for Marine and Environmental Studies, St Thomas, United States, (28)University of West Indies, St. Augistine, Trinidad and Tobago, (29)Universidad de la Republica, Unidad de Ciencias del Mar, Facultad de Ciencias, Montevideo, Uruguay, (30)National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Water Prediction, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (31)Smithsonian Institution, Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, Edgewater, MD, United States, (32)USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States, (33)University of South Florida, ST. Petersburg, United States, (34)University of South Florida St. Petersburg, IMaRS, St Petersburg, FL, United States