About the Authors

Ferdi L. Hellweger

ferdi@coe.neu.edu

Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Erik van Sebille

Affiliations Grantham Institute & Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Benjamin C. Calfee

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jeremy W. Chandler

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Erik R. Zinser

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Brandon K. Swan

Current address: National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, Maine, United States of America

Neil D. Fredrick

Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: FLH EvS. Formal analysis: FLH EvS BCC JWC ERZ BKS NDF. Funding acquisition: FLH EvS ERZ. Methodology: FLH EvS ERZ BKS. Software: FLH EvS NDF. Supervision: FLH EvS ERZ. Writing – original draft: FLH EvS ERZ BKS. Writing – review & editing: FLH EvS BCC JWC ERZ BKS NDF.