Alexandra Harper¹, Clarissa Anderson², Jan Newton³, Barbara Block⁴, Steven J. Bograd⁵, Gabrielle Canonico⁶, Francisco Chavez¹, Daniel P Costa⁷, Robert J. Miller⁸, Frank Muller-Karger⁹, James M Price¹⁰, Henry Ruhl¹¹, William W Turner¹², Michael Joseph Weise¹³ and Bill Woodward¹⁴, (1)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (2)UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)University of Washington, (4)Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA, United States, (5)NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Environmental Research Division, Monterey, United States, (6)U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (7)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (8)University of California, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (9)U.S Geological Survey, Washington, CA, United States, (10)U. S. BOEMRE, Herndon, VA, United States, (11)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, CeNCOOS, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (12)NASA Headquarters, Washington DC, DC, United States, (13)Office of Naval Research, US NAVY, Arlington, VA, United States, (14)NOAA/IOOS, United States