Thomas S S Bianchi, University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Robert C Aller, SUNY StonyBrook, Stony Brook, NY, United States, Trisha Atwood, Utah State University, Department of Watershed Sciences and The Ecology Center, Logan, UT, United States, Craig Brown, Dalhousie University, Oceanography, Halifax, NS, Canada, Luis Buatois, University of Saskatchewan, Geological Sciences, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Lisa A Levin, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Jeffrey S Levinton, Stony Brook University, Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook, NY, United States, Jack J Middelburg, Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences - Geochemistry, Utrecht, Netherlands, Elise S Morrison, University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Gainesville, FL, United States, Pierre A. G. Regnier, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, Michael R Shields, Texas A&M University, Geochemical and Environmental Research Group, College Station, TX, United States, Paul VR Snelgrove, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Biology and Ocean Sciences Center, St. John's, NF, Canada, Erik Sotka, College of Charleston, Biology, Charleston, United States and Ryan R.R Stanley, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada

Alicia Sendrowski, Colorado State University, Dept. of Geosciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Natalie Kramer, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University Fort Collins, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Robert G Hilton, Durham University, Geography, Durham, United Kingdom

Evan Joseph Ramos, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States and Tomas Capaldi, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States

Kayalvizhi Sadayappan¹, Rachel Keen², Pamela L Sullivan³, Jesse B Nippert² and Li Li⁴, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, State College, PA, United States, (2)Kansas State University, Division of Biology, Manhattan, KS, United States, (3)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States

Lulu Gao, Beijing, Beijing, China

Morgan J. Schmidt¹, Samuel Lukens Lukens Goldberg¹, J Taylor Perron², Michael Heckenberger³, Jennifer Watling^4,5, Wetherbee Bryan Dorshow^6,7, Bruno Moraes^8,9, Helena Lima¹⁰, Wenceslau Texeira¹¹, Eduardo Neves^4,5, Dorothy Hosler^12,13, Kumessi Waura¹⁴, Hulke Kuikuro¹⁴, Wate Kuikuro¹⁴ and Afukaka Kuikuro¹⁴, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)MIT---EAPS, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)University of Florida, Anthropology, Gainesville, FL, United States, (4)University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, (5)Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, Sao Paulo, Brazil, (6)Earth Analytic, Inc, Santa Fe, NM, United States, (7)Puente Institute, Santa Fe, NM, United States, (8)University of Pittsburgh, Anthropology, Pittsburgh, United States, (9)Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belem, Brazil, (10)Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Humanities/Archaeology, Belem, Brazil, (11)EMBRAPA Solos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (12)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Materials Science and Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (13)Center for Materials Research in Archaeology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (14)Kuikuro Indigenous Association of the Upper Xingu (AIKAX), Ipatse, Brazil

Derrick Vaughn, Florida State University, Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Jaap Nienhuis, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, Rob Spencer, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Wim Joost van Hoek, Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences - Geochemistry, Utrecht, Netherlands and Glenn A. Milne, University of Ottawa, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Mark A Torres¹, Kathryn E Clark², Rachel Collin³, Yi Hou⁴, William Larsen⁵, Viviana Bravo², Carolina Cesar² and Ximena Boza², (1)Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Calzada De Amador, Panama, (3)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Calzada de Amador, Panama, (4)Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (5)Rice University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States

Qina Yan¹, Haruko M Wainwright¹, Baptiste Dafflon¹, Gary Parker², Nicola Falco¹ and Susan S. Hubbard¹, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States

Lata Gawade, CSIR-National Institute of oceanography, Dona Paula Goa, / * Present adress: Goa University, Taleigao Plateau, Goa, Biological Oceanography Division/ Microbiology, Dona Paula, India

Kiersten Monahan¹, Brad E Rosenheim¹, Valier Galy² and Brenna Boehman², (1)University of South Florida St. Petersburg, College of Marine Science, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States

Sarah Shakil, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Suzanne Tank, University of Alberta, Department of Biological Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Steve Kokelj, Northwest Territories Geological Survey, Yellowknife, NT, Canada, Jorien Vonk, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Scott Zolkos, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States; University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Gen Li¹, Michael P. Lamb¹, Madison Douglas², A. Joshua West³, Joel C Rowland⁴, Preston Cosslett Kemeny¹, Anastasia Piliouras⁵, Jon Schwenk⁶, Austin J Chadwick¹ and Woodward W Fischer⁷, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (5)University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (6)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (7)Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States

Qi Feng¹, Chunjiang An², Mengfan Cai² and Zheng Wang², (1)Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (2)Concordia University, Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada

Katherine Braun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, IL, United States and Ethan J Theuerkauf, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States

Pierre Maffre¹, Yuem Park¹, Nicholas Swanson-Hysell², Yves Godderis³ and John C H Chiang⁴, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)CNRS, GET, Paris Cedex 16, France, (4)Univ California, Berkeley, CA, United States

Shreya Ramesh¹, Kayalvizhi Sadayappan², Wei Zhi³, Gary Sterle⁴, Adrian Adam Harpold⁴ and Li Li⁵, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, State College, PA, United States, (3)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, University Park, PA, United States, (4)University of Nevada Reno, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States, (5)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States