Seafarer citizen scientist ocean transparency data as a resource for phytoplankton and climate research

• Secchi Disk Seafarers ,

  Roles Investigation

  ¶Membership of Secchi Disk Seafarers is provided in the Acknowledgments.

  Affiliation Secchi Disk Seafarers, Citizen scientist participants in the Secchi Disk study, The oceans

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• Samantha Lavender,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pixalytics Ltd, Plymouth, United Kingdom

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• Gregory Beaugrand,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CNRS, University of Lille, University Littoral, Wimereux, France

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• Nicholas Outram ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicholas Outram, Nigel Barlow

  Roles Software

  Affiliation Plymouth University, Plymouth, United Kingdom

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• Nigel Barlow ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicholas Outram, Nigel Barlow

  Roles Software

  Affiliation Plymouth University, Plymouth, United Kingdom

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• David Crotty ,

  Roles Software

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation The Secchi Disk Foundation, Plymouth, United Kingdom

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• Jake Evans ,

  Roles Software

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation The Secchi Disk Foundation, Plymouth, United Kingdom

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• Richard Kirby

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Richard.Kirby@planktonpundit.org

  Affiliation The Secchi Disk Foundation, Plymouth, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9867-4454

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