Zhixuan Feng, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, Rubao Ji, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., Woods Hole, MA, United States, Carin J Ashjian, Woods Hole Oceaonographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Jinlun Zhang, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Robert G Campbell, University of Rhode Island Narragansett Bay, Narragansett, RI, United States and Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, MD, United States