Robert H. Condon,^* William M. Graham,^** Carlos M. Duarte,^*** Kylie A. Pitt,^**** Cathy H. Lucas,^***** Steven H.D. Haddock,^****** Kelly R. Sutherland,^******* Kelly L. Robinson,^******** Michael N Dawson,^********* Mary Beth Decker,^********** Claudia E. Mills,^*********** Jennifer E. Purcell,^************ Alenka Malej,^{*************} Hermes Mianzan,^{**************} Shin-Ichi Uye,^{***************} Stefan Gelcich,^{****************} Laurence P. Madin<sup>*****************


*</sup>Robert H. Condon (rcondon@disl.org) is a research scientist at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL), Dauphin Island, Alabama.
^**William M. “Monty” Graham is a senior marine scientist at DISL and is affiliated with the Department of Marine Science at the University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center.
^***Carlos M. Duarte, a coprincipal investigator of the global jellyfish group, is a marine scientist at the Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados (CSIC-UIB), Esporles, Spain, and director of the University of Western Australia's Oceans Institute in Crawley, Australia.
^****Kylie A. Pitt is a senior lecturer at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. She studies the ecology of pelagic ecosystems—in particular, the role of gelatinous Zooplankton in the trophodynamics and nutrient cycling of coastal waters.
^*****Cathy H. Lucas is a scientist at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom. She studies the population dynamics and life histories of coastal jellyfish and the ecology of benthic polyps.
^******Steven H.D. Haddock is a research scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California. He studies open ocean and mesopelagic gelatinous Zooplankton communities and their bioluminescence and also manages the citizen-scientist-community-based Jellywatch Web site (www.jellywatch.org).
^*******Kelly R. Sutherland is a postdoctoral scholar in bio engineering at the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena. She studies the swimming and feeding mechanics of gelatinous Zooplankton.
^********Kelly L. Robinson is a PhD student at the University of South Alabama, Mobile, but is based at DISL. Collectively, these three study global gelatinous Zooplankton blooms and their role in biogeochemical cycles and, more recently, the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on coastal planktonic and microbial food webs. Robert and Monty are also coprincipal investigators of the global jellyfish group, and Kelly comanages the Jellyfish Database Initiative.
^*********Michael N Dawson is an assistant professor at the University of California at Merced. He is a molecular and evolutionary ecologist that studies speciation, systematics and taxonomy of gelatinous Zooplankton.
^**********Mary Beth Decker is an associate research scientist at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. She studies how oceanographic processes and conditions affect the distribution, abundance, and behavior of marine predators and their prey and how these processes affect the trophic structure of coastal ecosystems.
^***********Claudia E. Mills is a scientist at the Friday Harbor Laboratories and in the Department of Biology, University of Washington, Friday Harbor. She studies the biology of medusae, ctenophores, and siphonophores in coastal waters, the open ocean, and the deep sea, with particular interest in this gelatinous Zooplankton in the changing ocean.
^************Jennifer E. Purcell is a research scientist at the Shannon Point Marine Center, Anacortes, Washington. She studies the trophic importance, population dynamics, and behavior of gelatinous Zooplankton, especially cnidarians and ctenophores.
^{*************}Alenka Malej is a professor at the National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia. She studies the ecology of jellyfish and the eutrophication of coastal waters, focusing on the Adriatic and Mediterranean Seas.
^{**************}Hermes Mianzan is a research scientist at the Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studies the distribution and ecology of Zooplankton, and biological-physical interactions in estuarine and coastal waters.
^{***************}Shin-ichi Uye is a professor in the Graduate School of Biosphere Sciences at Hiroshima University, Japan. He studies the socioeconomic and ecological impacts of jellyfish blooms in Asia—in particular, the giant jellyfish Nemopilema nomurai.
^{****************}Stefan Gelcich is a scientist at the Catholic University of Santiago, Chile. He studies the socioeconomic effects of jellyfish blooms and the benefits of cooperative fisheries-management systems in Chile.
^{*****************}Laurence P. “Larry” Madin is the executive vice president and director of research at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. His main research interests are in the biology of oceanic and deep-sea Zooplankton—particularly, medusae, siphonophores, ctenophores, and pelagic tunicates. He is one of the pioneers of gelatinous zooplankton research and among the first biologists to use blue-water SCUBA and submersibles to study oceanic plankton in the early 1970s.