Tong Wang, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, JAPAN, Dr. Shinya Kouketsu, JAMSTEC, WPI-AIMEC, Yokohama, Japan, Toshio Suga, Tohoku University/WPI-AIMEC, Sendai, Japan, Niklas Schneider, Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, United States, Bo Qiu, Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, United States, Kelvin John Richards, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, International Pacific Research Center, Honolulu, United States and Satoshi Osafune, JAMSTEC, Yokosuka-City, Kanag, Japan