lTohoku University (http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/japanese/)

lWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution (http://www.whoi.edu/)

lThe University of Hong Kong (http://www.hku.hk/)

lEarthbyte, the University of Sydney (http://www.earthbyte.org/index.html)

lHelmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel (http://www.geomar.de/)

lTexas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu/)

lJames Cook University (http://www.jcu.edu.au/)

lCambridge University (http://www.cam.ac.uk/)

lCalifornia Institute of Technology (http://www.caltech.edu/)

lTaiwan Univeristy (http://www.ntu.edu.tw/english/)

lAustralian National University (http://www.anu.edu.au/)

lKiel University (http://www.keele.ac.uk/)

lThe University of Bremen (http://www.uni-bremen.de/)

lThe University of Hamburg (http://www.uni-hamburg.de/)

lNorthwest University (http://english.nwu.edu.cn/)

lJilin University (http://en.jlu.edu.cn/University/)

lQingdao Institute of Marine Geology (http://www.qimg.cgs.gov.cn/)

lThe First Institute of Oceanography, Qingdao (http://www.fio.org.cn/en/)

lSouth China Sea Institute of Oceanology (http://english.scsio.cas.cn/)

lNational Deep Sea Center (http://www.ndsc.org.cn/index.asp)