Edited by Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France, and Lina Hansson, Project Manager EPOCA (European Project on Ocean Acidification)

Jean-Pierre Gattuso is CNRS Research Professor at the Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, CNRS and Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6. His main research activity relates to the cycling of carbon and carbonate in coastal ecosystems. More recently, he focused on the response of marine organisms and ecosystems to ocean acidification and published his first paper on this topic in 1998. He is the Scientific Coordinator of the FP7 large-scale integrated project EPOCA (European Project on Ocean Acidification). Jean-Pierre Gattuso is co-editor of the "Guide to Best Practices in Ocean Acidification Research and Data Reporting" published by the European Publications Office in 2010. He is also the Founding President of the Biogeosciences Division of the European Geosciences Union (2001-2005) and the Founding editor-in-chief of the journal Biogeosciences (2004-2009). More information is available at: http://www.obs-vlfr.fr/~gattuso and http://epoca-project.eu.

Lina Hansson has a Master of Science in Biotechnology Engineering and is the project manager of EPOCA - the European Project on Ocean Acidification. She co-edited the "Guide to Best Practices in Ocean Acidification Research and Data Reporting", a guidance document for the ocean acidification research community covering seawater carbonate chemistry, experimental design of perturbation experiments, measurements of CO2-sensitive processes and data reporting and usage. The guide was published in 2010 and is freely available from http://www.epoca-project.eu/index.php/Home/Guide-to-OA-Research/. Lina Hansson is the co-author of several articles on the EPOCA project in the newsletters of IMBER, SOLAS, LOICZ and The Eggs and in a special issue of Oceanography magazine on ocean acidification published in 2009.

Andreas J. Andersson - Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, USA
James P. Barry - Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, USA
Jelle Bijma - Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany
Kelvin Boot - Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
Laurent Bopp - Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, France
Wallace S. Broecker - Columbia University, USA
Woodward W. Fischer - California Institute of Technology, USA
Thomas L. Frölicher - University of Bern, Switzerland and Princeton University, USA
Reidun Gangstø - Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Switzerland
Jean-Pierre Gattuso - INSU-CNRS and UPMC Univ Paris 06, France
Marion Gehlen - Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, France
Nicolas Gruber - ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Magda Gutowska - Kiel University, Germany
Jason M. Hall-Spencer - University of Plymouth, UK
Lina Hansson - Project Manager EPOCA
Frances Hopkins - Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
Atsushi Ishimatsu - Nagasaki University, Japan
Fortunat Joos - University of Bern, Switzerland
Vassilis Kitidis - Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
Andrew H. Knoll - Harvard University, USA
Peter Liss - University of East Anglia, UK
Magnus Lucassen - Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany
Fred T. Mackenzie - University of Hawaii, USA
Xavier Mari - Université Montpellier II, France and Institute of Biotechnology, Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory, Vietnam
Frank Melzner - Leibniz Institute of Marine Science, Germany
Philip Nightingale - Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
James C. Orr - Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, France
Andreas Oschlies - Leibniz Institute of Marine Science, Germany
Gian-Kasper Plattner - University of Bern, Switzerland
Hans-Otto Pörtner - Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany
Andy Ridgwell - University of Bristol, UK
Ulf Riebesell - Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Germany
Brad Seibel - University of Rhode Island, USA
John I. Spicer - University of Plymouth, UK
Marco Steinacher - University of Bern, Switzerland
Philippe D. Tortell - University of British Columbia, Canada
Carol Turley - Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
Markus G. Weinbauer - INSU-CNRS and UPMC Univ Paris 06, France
Stephen Widdicombe - Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
Richard E. Zeebe - University of Hawaii, USA