*Charles K Paull¹, Peter J. Talling^3,2, Katherine L. Maier^4,1, Daniel Parsons⁵, Jingping Xu^6,7, David W. Caress¹, Roberto Gwiazda¹, Eve Lundsten¹, Krystle Anderson¹, Jim Barry¹, Mark Chaffey¹, Tom O'Reilly¹, Kurt Rosenberger⁴, Jenny Gales^3,8, Brian Kieft¹, Mary McGann⁴, Steve Simmons⁵, Mike McCann¹, Esther J. Sumner³, Coordinated Canyon Experiment Team (1.Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 2.Univ. of Durham, 3.National Oceanographic Center, 4.U.S. Geological Survey, 5.Hull Univ., 6.Ocean Univ. of China, 7.Southern Univ. of Sci. and Tech., 8.Univ. of Plymouth)

*Takeshi Nakajima¹ (1.Institute for Geo-Resources and Environment, Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)

*A. Kioka¹, T. Schwestermann¹, J. Moernaut¹, K. Ikehara², T. Kanamatsu³, C. M. McHugh^4,6, T. I. Eglinton⁵, M. Strasser^1,7 (1.Institute of Geology, University of Innsbruck, 2.Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 3.R&D Center for Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan Agency of Marine Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 4.Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, City University of New York, 5.Geological Institute, ETH Zürich, 6.Marine Geology and Geophysics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, 7.MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen)

*Cecilia M McHugh¹, Troy Rasbury², Leonardo Seeber³, Michael Strasser⁴, Toshiya Kanamatsu⁵, Ken Ikehara⁶, Sharif Mustaque⁷, Kazuko Usami⁸, Richard Bopp⁹, Katie Wooton², Jasper Moernaut⁴, Arata Kioka⁴, Tobias Schwestermann⁴ (1.Queens College, City University of New York, USA and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, NY, USA, 2.Department of Geosciences, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA, 3.Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, NY, USA, 4.Institute of Geology, University of Innsbruck, Austria, 5.R&D Center for Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan Agency of Marine Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 6.Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 7.Queens College, City University of New York, 8.Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 9.Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA)

*Qifeng Yao¹, Hajime Naruse¹ (1.Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)

*Steven Y. J. Lai¹, David Amblas², Thomas P Gerber³ (1.National Cheng Kung University, 2.Scott Polar Research Institute - University of Cambridge, UK, 3.Statoil - Research and Technology, Austin, Texas, USA)