About the Authors

N. David Bethoney

nbethoney@umassd.edu

Affiliation School for Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Liuzhi Zhao

Affiliation School for Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Changsheng Chen

Affiliation School for Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kevin D. E. Stokesbury

Affiliation School for Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NDB LZ CC KDES. Data curation: NDB LZ. Formal analysis: NDB LZ. Funding acquisition: CC KDES. Investigation: NDB LZ. Methodology: NDB LZ CC KDES. Project administration: NDB KDES. Resources: NDB LZ CC KDES. Supervision: CC KDES. Validation: NDB. Visualization: NDB. Writing – original draft: NDB. Writing – review & editing: NDB KDES.