Melissa Melendez¹, Aurora M Ricart², Brittney Honisch³, Charlotte Quigley³, Nichole Price³, Peter Craig³, Tiffany Stephens^4,5, Ana Borrero⁶ and Diogo Raposo⁶, (1)University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Oceanography, Honolulu, United States, (2)Institut de Ciències del Mar, ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, (3)Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (5)Native Conservancy, Cordova, United States, (6)Seaweed Solutions, Trondheim, Norway