About the Authors

Christina M. Preston

preston@mbari.org

Affiliation Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California, United States of America

Adeline Harris

Affiliation Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California, United States of America

John P. Ryan

Affiliation Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California, United States of America

Brent Roman

Affiliation Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California, United States of America

Roman Marin III

Affiliation Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California, United States of America

Scott Jensen

Affiliation Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California, United States of America

Cheri Everlove

Affiliation Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California, United States of America

James Birch

Affiliation Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California, United States of America

John M. Dzenitis

Affiliation Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America

Douglas Pargett

Affiliation Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California, United States of America

Masao Adachi

Affiliation Laboratory of Aquatic Environmental Science, Kochi University, Kochi, Japan

Kendra Turk

Affiliation Department of Ocean Sciences and Earth and Marine Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Jonathon P. Zehr

Affiliation Department of Ocean Sciences and Earth and Marine Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Christopher A. Scholin

Affiliation Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CAS CMP JB AH JPZ. Performed the experiments: CMP AH KT RM. Analyzed the data: CMP JPR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CMP AH BR RM KT CAS. Wrote the paper: CMP CAS JB. Responsible for instrument deployment: DP SJ RM CE. Wrote the software to run the ESP: BR AH. Led development of the PCR module, etc: JMD. Contributed to SPE: MA.