Karyn L Rogers¹, Frederick S Colwell², Emil Ruff³, Jerome Patrice Payet⁴, Panagiotis Adam⁵, Till Bornemann⁵, Brandon R Briggs⁶, Ahmed Eleish⁷, Eric Gaidos⁸, Adrienne Hoarfrost⁹, Fang Huang⁷, Brandi Kiel Reese¹⁰, Joshua Ladau¹¹, Rosa Leon-Zayas¹², Karen G Lloyd¹³, Ken Locey¹⁴, Cara Magnabosco¹⁵, Mark A Parsons⁷, Alexander Probst⁵, Cody Sheik¹⁶, Barbara Sherwood Lollar¹⁷ and Mitchell L Sogin¹⁸, (1)Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States, (2)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, United States, (4)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Covrallis, OR, United States, (5)University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, (6)University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, United States, (7)Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tetherless World Constellation, Troy, NY, United States, (8)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (9)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Marine Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (10)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (11)University of California San Francisco, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA, United States, (12)Willamette University, Salem, OR, United States, (13)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States, (14)Dine College, Tsaile, United States, (15)Simons Foundation, Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Biology, New York, NY, United States, (16)University of Minnesota Duluth, Large Lakes Observatory, Duluth, MN, United States, (17)University of Toronto, Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, (18)Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, United States