Lee W Cooper¹, Mats A Granskog², Kumiko Azetsu-Scott³, Maurizio Azzaro⁴, Kristina Brown⁵, Paul Anthony Dodd², Melissa Chierici⁶, Agneta Fransson², Mariko Hatta⁷, Céline Heuzé⁸, Jinyoung Jung⁹, Daiki Nomura¹⁰, Adam Ulfsbo¹¹, William James Williams¹², Michiyo Yamamoto-Kawai¹³, Clara Turetta¹⁴ and Sarah Zimmermann¹⁵, (1)University of Maryland (UMCES CBL), Solomons, MD, United States, (2)Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway, (3)Bedford Inst Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada, (4)Institute of Polar Sciences, National Research Council (ISP-CNR), Messina, Italy, (5)University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, (6)Institute of Marine Research, Tromsø, Norway, (7)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (8)University of Gothenburg, Department of Earth Sciences, Gothenburg, Sweden, (9)Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea, (10)Hokkaido University, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hakodate, Japan, (11)University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, (12)Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada, (13)Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (14)Institute of Polar Sciences, Venice, Italy, (15)Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, BC, Canada