Dr. Natalia Lopez, Ph.D.¹, Pamela Hallock Muller², Wigmali Guzman Echevarria³, Liza M Roger⁴, Milton Muñoz Hincapie⁵, Juleika Vega⁶, Lizmar Luna⁷, Cheryl Ames⁸, Andre Morandini⁹, Megan Maloney¹⁰, Elizabeth Stoner¹¹ and Katherine Buckley¹⁰, (1)Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observation System (GCOOS), Saint Petersburg, United States, (2)University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, United States, (3)Centro de Investigación y Restauración de Organismos Marinos (CIROM), Ceiba, United States, (4)Arizona State University, School of Molecular Sciences and School of Ocean Futures, Tempe, United States, (5)Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Ponce, United States, (6)University of Puerto Rico Humacao, Department of Biology, Humacao, United States, (7)University of Puerto Rico, Humacao, United States, (8)Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, (9)University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, United States, (10)Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, United States, (11)Bentley University, Waltham, United States