Nianzhi Jiao, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, Baruch Rinkevich, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Haifa, Israel, Carol Robinson, University of East Anglia, Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Environmental Science, Norwich, United Kingdom, Curtis Suttle, The University of British Columbia, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Celeste Lopez Abbate, Argentine Institute of Oceanography, Argentina, Douglas Wallace, Dalhousie University, Department of Oceanography, Halifax, NS, Canada, David A Hutchins, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Herve Claustre, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, Helmuth Thomas, Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany, Jung-Ho Hyun, Hanyang University, Ansan, South Korea, Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Sorbonne University, France, Louis Legendre, Laboratoire d'oceanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, Lionel Guidi, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), UMR 7093, Sorbonne Université, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, Luca Polimene, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, MEMP, Plymouth, United Kingdom, Michal Koblížek, Institute of Microbiology, Czech Republic, Pavel Ya. Tishchenko, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia, Pekka Hermanni Kaartokallio, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland, Ronald H Benner, University of South Carolina, Marine Science Program and Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia, SC, United States, Ramaiah Nagappa, CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography,, India and Youhei Yamashita, Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan