Noemi Schollmeyer¹, Anand Jain², Emelia Chamberlain³, Shikhar Kumar⁴, Ashok Shivaji Jagtap⁵, Venkatachalam Siddartha⁶, Vipindas P. V.⁷, Archana Singh⁸, Holly Stapelfeldt⁹, Clara Hoppe¹⁰, Josh Duran¹¹ and John Paul Paul Balmonte⁹, (1)Lehigh University, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, United States, (2)National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Arctic Ecology and Biogeochemistry, Vasco da Gama, India, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States, (4)National centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Vasco da Gama, India, (5)CSIR National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, Biological Oceanography Division, Dona Paula, India, (6)National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Vasco da Gama, India, (7)National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Arctic Ecology & Biogeochemistry, Goa, India, (8)NCPOR Goa, Arctic Ecology and biogeochemistry, Vascodagama, India, (9)Lehigh University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, United States, (10)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research, Marine Bioeociences, Bremerhaven, Germany, (11)Lehigh University, Earth and Environmental Science, Bethlehem, United States