About the Authors

Rocío Joo

Contributed equally to this work with: Rocío Joo, Andrea Sánchez-Tapia

rocio.joo@globalfishingwatch.org (RJ); janani@msu.edu (JR)

Affiliation Global Fishing Watch, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Andrea Sánchez-Tapia

Contributed equally to this work with: Rocío Joo, Andrea Sánchez-Tapia

Affiliation Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sara Mortara

Affiliation International Institute for Sustainability, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Yanina Bellini Saibene

Affiliations rOpenSci, Berkeley, CA, United States of America; Universidad Nacional Guillermo Brown, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Anguil, La Pampa, Argentina; R-Ladies, California, United States of America, MetaDocencia, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Heather Turner

Affiliations Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria

Dorothea Hug Peter

Affiliation Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movements, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

Natalia Soledad Morandeira

Affiliation Instituto de Investigación e Ingeniería Ambiental, Universidad Nacional de San Martín—Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, General San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Matt Bannert

Affiliation KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Batool Almazrouq

Affiliations Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Elizabeth Hare

Affiliation Dog Genetics LLC, Astoria, New York, United States of America

Laura Ación

Affiliations MetaDocencia, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Instituto de Cálculo, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires—Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Juan Pablo Narváez-Gómez

Affiliation Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Marcela Alfaro Córdoba

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Federico Marini

Affiliation Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (IMBEI), University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Rita Giordano

Affiliation Royal Society of Chemistry, Thomas Graham House (290), Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Silvia Canelón

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Anicet Ebou

Affiliation Bioinformatics Team, Département de Formation et de Recherche Agriculture et Ressources Animales, Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire

Adithi R. Upadhya

Affiliation ILK Labs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Joselyn Chávez

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología Molecular, Instituto de Biotecnología UNAM, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

Janani Ravi

rocio.joo@globalfishingwatch.org (RJ); janani@msu.edu (JR)

Affiliation Departments of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: HT is a board member of The R Foundation, serving on the R Foundation conference committee that arranges hosts for the useR! conference series