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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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