Henry Ruhl¹, Lisa A Levin², Patrick Heimbach³, Andrea L McCurdy⁴, Leslie Smith⁵, Simone Baumann-Pickering⁶, Marina Carreiro-Silva⁷, Kristina Gjerde⁸, Bruce M Howe⁹, Felix Janssen¹⁰, Katsuro Katsumata¹¹, Deborah S Kelley¹², Nadine Le Bris¹³, Craig R Smith¹⁴, Paul VR Snelgrove¹⁵, Sun Song¹⁶, Samuel A Soule¹⁷, Karen I Stocks¹⁸, Nicholas Rome¹⁹, R Venkatesan²⁰, Robert A Weller²¹, Thomas F. Hourigan²², Ellen Kenchington²³, Joana Xavier²⁴, Hans Tore Rapp²⁴, Imants Priede²⁵, Andrew Gates²⁶ and Mathilde Cannat²⁷, (1)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanog, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Youroceanconsulting, Knoxville, United States, (6)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (7)Universidade dos Açores, Horta, Portugal, (8)International Union for Conservation of Nature, Cambridge, United States, (9)University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, (10)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, (11)JAMSTEC, Yokosuka, Japan, (12)University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, (13)Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France, (14)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, (15)Memorial University of Newfoundland, Biology and Ocean Sciences Center, St. John's, Canada, (16)Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, (17)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (18)Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (19)Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Washington, DC, United States, (20)National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai, India, (21)WHOI, Monument Beach, MA, United States, (22)NOAA Fisheries Service, Deep Sea Coral Research & Technology Program, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (23)Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dartmouth, Canada, (24)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (25)University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, (26)NOC, Southampton, United Kingdom, (27)CNRS and Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France