1. Okeanos Research Centre Departamento de Oceanografia e Pesca Universidade dos Açores Horta Portugal
2. IMAR Instituto do Mar Departamento de Oceanografia e Pesca Universidade dos Açores Horta Portugal
3. Institute of Oceanography National Taiwan University Taipei Taiwan
4. Department of Biological Sciences University of Rhode Island Kingston RI USA
5. Marine Benthic Ecology, Biogeochemistry and In situ Technology Research Group The Lyell Centre for Earth and Marine Science and Technology Heriot‐Watt University Edinburgh UK
6. Fisheries and Oceans Canada Bedford Institute of Oceanography Dartmouth NS Canada
7. Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO)Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo Vigo, Pontevedra Spain
8. Earth and Ocean Sciences NUI Galway Galway Ireland
9. IFREMER, Centre Atlantique Nantes France
10. MARBEC University of Montpellier IFREMER CNRS IRD Sète France
11. Department of Biology University of Bari Aldo Moro Bari Italy
12. CoNISMa Rome Italy
13. Department of Biology Temple University Philadelphia PA USA
14. Marine and Freshwater Research Institute Reykjavík Iceland
15. Marine Research Department Senckenberg am Meer Wilhelmshaven Germany
16. Gianni Consultancy Amsterdam The Netherlands
17. Northwest Atlantic Fisheries CentreFisheries and Ocean Canada St. John’s NL Canada
18. MARUM ‐ Center for Marine Environmental Sciences University of Bremen Bremen Germany
19. Fisheries and Oceans Canada Winnipeg MB Canada
20. Changing Oceans Group School of GeoSciences Grant Institute University of Edinburgh Edinburgh UK
21. Seascape Consultants Ltd Romsey UK
22. IFREMERCentre de Bretagne Plouzané France
23. P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS Moscow Russia
24. Instituto Español de OceanografíaCentro Oceanográfico de Baleares Palma Spain
25. Fisheries and Ocean Canada Ottawa ON Canada
26. Instituto Español de Oceanografía Madrid Spain
27. Center for Marine Science University of North Carolina at Wilmington Wilmington NC USA
28. Instituto Español de OceanografíaCentro Oceanográfico de Málaga Málaga Spain
29. Ocean Sciences Centre Memorial University St. John’s NL Canada
30. Marine Laboratory Marine Scotland Science Aberdeen UK
31. Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) Utrecht University Yerseke The Netherlands
32. Department of Biology University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Honolulu HI USA
33. Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation and Integrative Oceanography Division Scripps Institution of Oceanography UC San Diego La Jolla CA USA