1. Department of Ocean Systems Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) Den Burg the Netherlands
2. GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel Kiel Germany
3. HGF MPG Joint Research Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) Bremerhaven Germany
4. HGF MPG Joint Research Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (MPI) Bremen Germany
5. Marine Biology Research Group Ghent University Ghent Belgium
6. WerkStaat Heidelberg Germany
7. Department of Earth Sciences Utrecht University Utrecht the Netherlands
8. Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) Hannover Germany