*Natsue Abe^1,2, Andrew McCaig³, Susan Lang⁴, Donna Blackman⁵, Benoit Ildefonse⁶, Yasuhiko Ohara^7,8, Beth Orcutt⁹, Benedicte Menez¹⁰, Marvin Lilley¹¹, Geoffery Wheaet¹², Johan Lissenberg¹³, Frieder Klein¹⁴, William Seyfried¹⁵, Muriel Andreani¹⁶, Barbara John¹⁷, Marguerite Godard⁶, Antony Morris¹⁸, Esther Schwarzenbach¹⁹, Christopher MacLeod¹³, Ivan Savov³, Alistair Harding²⁰, Gretchen Früh-Green²¹ (1.Mantle Drilling Promotion Office, MarE3, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology , 2.Graduate School of Natural Science & Technology, Kanazawa University, 3.University of Leeds, 4.University of South California, 5.UC Santa Cruz, 6.University of Montpellier, 7.Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, 8.IMG, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 9.Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, 10.IPGP Paris, 11.University of Washington, 12.University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 13.Cardiff University, 14.Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, 15.University of Minnesota, 16.University of Lyon, 17.University of Wyoming, 18.University of Plymouth, 19.Free University Berlin, 20.UC San Diego, 21.ETH, Zürich)

*Kohei Nimura¹, Katsuyoshi Michibayashi^1,2, Yumiko Harigane³, Yasuhiko Ohara^2,4 (1.Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, 2.JAMSTEC, 3.Research Institute of Geology and Geoinformation, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 4.Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department of Japan)

*Yasuhiko Ohara^1,2,3, Katsuyoshi Michibayashi³, Henry JB Dick⁴, Jonathan E Snow⁵, Yumiko Harigane⁶, Alessio Sanfilippo⁷ (1.Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department of Japan, 2.Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology , 3.Nagoya University, 4.Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 5.Louisiana State University, 6.Geological Survey of Japan, 7.University of Pavia)

*Katsuyoshi Michibayashi^1,3, Yasuhiko Ohara^1,2,3 (1.Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Nagoya University, 2.Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department of Japan, 3.Research Institute for Marine Geodynamics, JAMSTEC)

*Kyoko Okino¹, Yasuhiko Ohara^2,6,7, Kenichiro Tani³, Osamu Ishizuka⁴, Masakazu Fujii⁵ (1.Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 2.Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department of Japan, 3.National Museum of Nature and Science, 4.National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 5.National Institute of Polar Science, 6.JAMSTEC, 7.Nagoya University)

*Tomoyo Okumura¹, Yoshihiro Takaki², Ken Takai², Miho Hirai², Takuro Nunoura², Yasuhiko Ohara³ (1.Center for Advanced Marine Core Research, Kochi University, 2.Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 3.Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department of Japan)