Viviana Piermattei¹, Mr. Patrick Gorringe², Emilie Breviere², Peter Thijsse³, Antonio Novellino⁴, Aianna Liconti⁵, Kate Larkin⁶, Joseph A Nolan, Jaume Piera⁸, Alexandra Kokkinaki⁹, Sigmund Kluckner¹⁰, Ivan Federico¹¹, Garabet Kazanjian¹², Giovanni Coppini¹³, Franziska Stressman¹⁴, Nancy Fockedey¹⁵, Jan Seys¹⁵, Adam Gauci¹⁶, Alan Deidun¹⁶, Camilla Campanati¹¹, Lucie Cocquempot¹⁷ and V.Piermattei, P. Gorringe, E. Breviere, P. Thijsse, A. Novellino, A. Liconti, L. Cocquempot, K. Larkin, J. Nolan, J. Piera, A. Kokkinaki, K. Garabet, F. Stressman, N. Fockedey, J. Seys, S. Kluckner, A. Gauci, A. Deidun, C. Campanati,I. Federico,G.Coppin, (1)CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, IESP institute, Lecce, Italy, (2)Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden, (3)MARIS, Nootdorp, Netherlands, (4)ETT SpA, Genova, Italy, (5)Outbe, Genova, Italy, (6)Seascape Belgium, EMODnet Secretariat, Oostende, Belgium, (7)Institut de Ciències del Mar - Spanish National Research Council, Department of Physical and Technological Oceanography - EMBIMOS, Barcelona, Spain, (8)National Oceanography Centre, BODC, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (9)IEEE, Vienna, Austria, (10)CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Lecce, Italy, (11)American University of Armenia (AUA), Erevan, Armenia, (12)CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Bologna, Italy, (13)European Citizen Science Association - ECSA, Berlin, Germany, (14)Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Oostende, Belgium, (15)University of Malta, Msida, Malta, (16)Ifremer, EuroGOOS, Plouzané, France