Hadley McIntosh Marcek, University of Maryland (UMCES CBL), Solomons, MD, United States, Ann P McNichol, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Scott Dallimore, Geological Survey of Canada Pacific, Sidney, BC, Canada, Lance Lesack, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, Beth Orcutt, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science, East Boothbay, ME, United States, Charles Geoffrey Wheat, NURP/ Univ Alaska, Moss Landing, CA, United States, Jeff Chanton, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Laura Lapham, UMCES, Chesapeake Bio. Lab, Solomons, MD, United States