Jan Hafner, IPRC/SOEST U. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, Nikolai A Maximenko, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, Luca Raffaele Centurioni, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Mary Crowley, Ocean Voyages Institute, United States, Linsey Haram, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, United States, Andrey Shcherbina, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Kenmore, WA, United States, Gregory Ruiz, Smithsonian, SERC, Edgewater, MD, United States, James T Carlton, Williams College, Mystic Seaport Program, United States and Cathryn Murray, PICES North Pacific Marine Science Organization, Sidney, BC, United States