Ashley Dubnick, University of Alberta, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Martin J Sharp, Univ Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Brad Danielson, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Alireza Saidi-Mehrabad, University of Alberta, Department of Biological Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Joel D Barker, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Jesper Riis Christiansen, University of Copenhagen, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, København K, Denmark, Thomas Röckmann, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, Elena Popa, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands, Célia Julia Sapart, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussel, Belgium and Christian Juncher Jørgensen, Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Arctic Environment, Aarhus C, Denmark

Benoit Faucher¹, Nicole B. Marsh², Denis Lacelle¹, Liam Jaspere², Ian Douglas Clark³ and Dale T Andersen⁴, (1)University of Ottawa, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (2)University of Ottawa, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ottawa, Canada, (3)University of Ottawa, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (4)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States

Christina Davis¹, Amanda Achberger², Joel D Barker³, Timothy Campbell⁴, John E Dore⁵, David M Harwood⁶, Jon Hawkings⁷, Ok-Sun Kim⁸, Amy Leventer⁹, Alexander B Michaud^10,11, Molly O'Rourke Patterson¹², John C Priscu¹³, Brad E Rosenheim¹⁴, Mark L Skidmore⁴, August Steigmeyer¹⁰, Ryan Venturelli¹⁵, Brent Christner¹ and SALSA Science Team, (1)University of Florida, Microbiology and Cell Science, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (2)Texas A&M University, Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States, (3)University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (4)Montana State University, Earth Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States, (5)Montana State University, Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States, (6)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (7)Florida State University, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (8)Korea Polar Research Insitute, Incheon, South Korea, (9)Colgate University, Geology, Hamilton, NY, United States, (10)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (11)Bigelow Lab for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States, (12)Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, United States, (13)Montana State University, Land Resources and Environmental Science, Bozeman, MT, United States, (14)University of South Florida St. Petersburg, College of Marine Science, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (15)University of South Florida, St Petersburg, United States

Steven K Schmidt, Univ Colorado, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Boulder, CO, United States, Pacifica Sommers, University of Colorado, Boulder, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Boulder, CO, United States, Benjamin W Johnson, Iowa State University, Atmospheric and Geological Sciences, Ames, IA, United States, Andrew G Fountain, Portland State University, Geology, Portland, OR, United States, Dorota Porazinska, University of Florida, Department of Entomology and Nematology, Gainesville, United States, Adam Solon, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States, Felix Jacob Zamora, Portland State University, Geology, Portland, ND, United States and John L Darcy, University of Colorado, Denver, United States

Robyn Barbato¹, Komi S Messan², Robert M Jones¹, Stacey Jarvis Doherty¹ and Thomas Douglas³, (1)U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)NIH, Bethesda, MD, United States, (3)Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Alaska, Fort Wainwright, AK, United States

Julie Lattaud¹, Cindy De Jonge², Felix J Elling³, Ann Pearson³ and Timothy I Eglinton⁴, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)University of Antwerp, Biology, Wilrijk, Belgium, (3)Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)ETH Zurich, Geological Institute, Zurich, Switzerland

Kyra St. Pierre^1,2, Vincent L St.Louis³, Igor Lehnherr³, Jessica A. Serbu³, Maria Cavaco³, Derek Muir⁴ and Sherry L Schiff⁵, (1)University of Alberta, Department of Biological Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (2)University of British Columbia, Hakai Coastal Initiative, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (3)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (4)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Burlington, ON, Canada, (5)Univ of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada