Ronmel Rugama-Montenegro, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Yiwei Shang, University of Southern California, Department of Biological Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Laura Gomez-Consarnau, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, Marine and Environmental Biology, Esporles, Spain, A. Joshua West, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Xosé Antón Álvarez Salgado, Organic Geochemistry Lab, CSIC Institute of Marine Research, Vigo, Spain, Javier Aristegui, Instituto de Oceanografía y Cambio Global (IOCAG), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain and Sergio Sañudo-Wilhelmy, University of Southern California, Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, United States