Maria T Kavanaugh, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Francisco Chavez, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States, Scott Doney, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, MD, United States, Enrique Montes, University of South Florida, St Petersburg, FL, United States, Frank E Muller-Karger, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, IMaRS, St Petersburg, FL, United States, David Siegel, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Joaquin A Trinanes, NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, FL, United States