About the Authors

Daphne Fautin

fautin@ku.edu

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Penelope Dalton

Affiliation Washington Sea Grant, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Lewis S. Incze

Affiliation Aquatic Systems Group, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, United States of America

Jo-Ann C. Leong

Affiliation Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Kaneohe, Hawaii, United States of America

Clarence Pautzke

Affiliation North Pacific Research Board, Anchorage, Alaska, United States of America

Andrew Rosenberg

Affiliation Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Paul Sandifer

Affiliation Hollings Marine Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

George Sedberry

Affiliation Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary, Savannah, Georgia, United States of America

John W. Tunnell Jr

Affiliation Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States of America

Isabella Abbott

Affiliation Department of Botany, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Russell E. Brainard

Affiliation National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Melissa Brodeur

Affiliation Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Lucius G. Eldredge

Affiliation Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Michael Feldman

Affiliation Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Fabio Moretzsohn

Affiliation Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States of America

Peter S. Vroom

Affiliation Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Michelle Wainstein

Affiliation Washington Sea Grant, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Nicholas Wolff

Affiliation Aquatic Systems Group, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.