GORDON ORIANS,¹ FREDERIC BRIAND,² JARED DIAMOND,³ THEO COLBORN,⁴ EDGARDO GOMEZ,⁵ ROGER GUILLEMIN,⁶ AARON KLUG,⁷ MASAKAZU KONISHI,⁸ JANE LUBCHENCO,⁹ LAURENCE MEE,¹⁰ ELLIOTT NORSE,¹¹ GIUSEPPE NOTARBARTOLO DI SCIARA,¹² ROGER PAYNE,¹³ CARL SAFINA,¹⁴ DAVID SUZUKI,¹⁵ EDWARD O. WILSON,¹⁶ GEORGE WOODWELL<sup>17

1</sup>Professor Emeritus of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
²Director General, Commission Internationale pour, l'Exploration Scientifique de la Méditerraneé, Monaco
³Professor of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
⁴Senior Scientist, World Wildlife Fund–US ( )
⁵Professor, Marine Sciences Institute, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines
⁶Distinguished Professor, Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, USA
⁷Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Microbiology, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
⁸Professor, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
⁹Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
¹⁰Professor of Marine and Coastal Policy, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
¹¹President, Marine Conservation Biology Institute, Redmond, Washington, USA
¹²President, Istituto Centrale per la Ricerca, Scientifica e Tecnologica, Applicata al Mare, Rome, Italy
¹³Founder and President, Ocean Alliance, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA
¹⁴Lecturer, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
¹⁵Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, Canada
¹⁶Pellegrino University Research, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
¹⁷Director, Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA