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AUTHORS
Julien T. Middleton (jtmiddleton@ucsb.edu), Marine Science Institute, University
of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. Sarah Clem, University of Rhode Island,
Narragansett, RI, USA. Katherine L. Gallagher, School of Marine and Atmospheric
Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA. Erin Meyer-Gutbrod and
Amadi Afua Sefah-Twerefour, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
Margrethe H. Serres, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA,
USA. Mona Behl, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA. James Pierson, Center
for Environmental Science, University of Maryland, Cambridge, MD, USA.
ARTICLE CITATION
Middleton, J.T., S. Clem, K.L. Gallagher, E. Meyer-Gutbrod, A.A. Sefah-Twerefour,
M.H. Serres, M. Behl, and J. Pierson. 2025. Community recommendations on
belonging, accessibility, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives in ocean
sciences: A town hall discussion. Oceanography 38(2):58–65, https://doi.org/
10.5670/oceanog.2025.306.
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