Heather Andres, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, NL, Canada and Lev Tarasov, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Canada

Pradeep N Ranasinghage, University of Ruhuna, Department of Oceanography and Marine Geology, Matara, Sri Lanka, Nadee Uthpala Nanayakkara, Geological Survey and Mines Bureau Sri Lanka, Pitakotte, Sri Lanka, Tilak Hewawasam, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Ranjith Mahanama, University of Colombo, Department of Chemistry, Colombo, Sri Lanka and Sharani Kodithuwakku, The University of Western Australia, Ocean Institute, Perth, Australia

Brad E Rosenheim¹, Ryan Venturelli², Cristina Subt³, Imogen Mireille Browne⁴, Theresa M King⁵, Timothy Campbell⁶, Philip J Bart⁷, John E Dore⁸, David M Harwood⁹, Jonathan Kingslake¹⁰, Jae-Il Lee¹¹, Amy Leventer¹², Alexander B Michaud¹³, Molly Patterson¹⁴, Amelia Shevenell¹⁵, Matthew Siegfried¹⁶, Mark L Skidmore⁶, Kyu-Cheul Yoo¹¹, Ho Il Yoon¹⁷ and SALSA Science Team, (1)University of South Florida St. Petersburg, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (2)University of South Florida, St Petersburg, United States, (3)El Paso Community College, Geological Sciences, El Paso, TX, United States, (4)University of University of South Florida,, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, (5)University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, Tampa, FL, United States, (6)Montana State University, Earth Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States, (7)Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (8)Montana State University, Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States, (9)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (10)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (11)Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea, (12)Colgate University, Geology, Hamilton, NY, United States, (13)Bigelow Lab for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States, (14)Binghampton University, Binghamton, NY, United States, (15)University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States, (16)Colorado School of Mines, Geophysics, Golden, CO, United States, (17)KOPRI, Incheon, South Korea

Naima El bani Altuna¹, Tine Lander Rasmussen², Mohamed Ezat³, Sunil Vadakkepuliyambatta³, Henry Patton⁴, Jeroen Groeneveld⁵ and Mervyn Greaves⁶, (1)University of Tromso - The Artic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Norway, (2)Univ Tromso, Tromso, Norway, (3)University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, (4)CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Department of Geoscience, Tromsø, Norway, (5)Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany, (6)University of Cambridge, Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Roger Creel¹, Jacqueline Austermann², William J D'Andrea¹, Nicole Khan³, Nicholas Balascio⁴, Blake Dyer⁵ and Erica L. Ashe⁶, (1)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)University of Hong Kong, Department of Earth Sciences, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (4)College of William and Mary, Geology, Williamsburg, VA, United States, (5)University of Victoria, Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada, (6)Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

Jesse Velay-Vitow, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada and W Richard Peltier, Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Peter McNeil Chutcharavan¹, Andrea Dutton², Paul Blanchon³, Jody Webster⁴, R. Lawrence Edwards⁵, Xianglei Li⁶, Gilbert Camoin⁷, Edouard G Bard⁷, Pierre Deschamps⁷ and Bruno Hamelin⁷, (1)University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Geoscience, Madison, WI, United States, (3)National Autonomous University of Mexico, Institute of Marine Sciences & Limnology, Puerto Morelos, QR, Mexico, (4)University of Sydney, Geocoastal Research Group, School of Geosciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (5)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Earth and Environmental Science, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (6)University of Minnesota, Department of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (7)CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence Cedex, France

Yucheng Lin^1,2, Fiona D Hibbert^2,3, Pippa Whitehouse¹, Sarah Alice Woodroffe¹, Anthony Patrick Purcell², Ian Shennan¹ and Sarah Bradley⁴, (1)Durham University, Department of Geography, Durham, United Kingdom, (2)Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, Australia, (3)University of York, Department of Environment and Geography, York, United Kingdom, (4)The University of Sheffield, Department of Geography, Sheffield, United Kingdom