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