Hernan Eduardo Garcia, National Centers for Environmental Information (formerly NODC), NOAA NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Tim Boyer, NOAA/National Oceanographic Data Center, Washington, DC, United States, James R Reagan, ESSIC - University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, Marilaure Grégoire, University of Liège, Belgium, Denise Breitburg, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, United States, Veronique Garcon, CNRS-LEGOS, Toulouse, France, Andreas Oschlies, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Maciej Telszewski, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland and Kirsten Isensee, IOC, France