1. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
2. Departamento de Estudios Ambientales, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela
3. Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO), Plymouth, UK
4. Institute for Marine Remote Sensing (IMaRS), College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, USA
5. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Hobart, Australia
6. Department of Environmental Sciences, Suez University, Suez, Egypt
7. International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, Oostende, Belgium
8. Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, UK
9. Instituto Nacional de Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP), Mar del Plata, Argentina
10. School of Oceanography, College of the Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
11. EuroGOOS AISBL, Brussels, Belgium
12. European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), Darmstadt, Germany
13. Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), Newark, USA