1. Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Nankoku, Kochi 783-8502, Japan.
2. Research and Development Center for Marine Resources, JAMSTEC, Yokosuka 237-0061, Japan.
3. MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, D-28359 Bremen, Germany.
4. Center for Deep-Earth Exploration, JAMSTEC, Yokohama 236-0061, Japan.
5. Research and Development Center for Ocean Drilling Science, JAMSTEC, Yokohama 236-0001, Japan.
6. College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
7. Department of Subsurface Geobiological Analysis and Research, JAMSTEC, Yokosuka 237-0061, Japan.
8. Department of Biogeochemistry, JAMSTEC, Yokosuka 237-0061, Japan.
9. Center for Geomicrobiology, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
10. Department of Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.
11. Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8567, Japan.
12. Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB2A 3UE, UK.
13. Department of Applied Geosciences and Geophysics, Montanuniversität, 8700 Leoben, Austria.
14. School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
15. Environmental Management Research Institute, AIST, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8569, Japan.
16. The State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210093, China.
17. Center for Advanced Marine Core Research, Kochi University, Nankoku, Kochi 783-8502, Japan.
18. Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
19. Petroleum and Marine Resources Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-350, Korea.
20. Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA.
21. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA.
22. Department of Earth Sciences, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
23. Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI 02882, USA.
24. Department of Earth Science, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
25. School of Earth Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane Queensland 4072, Australia.
26. Marine Works Japan, Yokosuka 237-0063, Japan.
27. Department of Earth Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan.
28. Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
29. Department of Urban Management, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8540, Japan.