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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank the GOA-ON executive council members for reviewing this work and all par-

ticipants of the GOA-ON mCDR webinar held online on April 16, 2024. We also thank

the NOAA Ocean Acidification Program, the IAEA OA-ICC, and the IOC-UNESCO

for supporting the GOA-ON mCDR working group. HSF acknowledges funding from

a Natural Environment Research Council grant, NE/X006271/1. HB was supported

by the European Union under grant agreement no. 101094690 (EuroGO-SHIP). RAF

was funded by NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science Competitive

Research Program, Climate Program Office, Ocean Acidification Program (OAP) and

the US Integrated Ocean Observing System Office under award NA22NOS4780171 to

Oregon State University and NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, and by

NOAA’s OAP (NA210AR4310251).

AUTHORS

Helen S. Findlay (hefi@pml.ac.uk), Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, UK.

Richard A. Feely, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA,

USA. Kalina Grabb, IBSS, under contract in support of NOAA Northeast Fisheries

Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, USA. Elizabeth B. Jewett, NOAA Northeast

Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, USA. Elise F. Keister and Gabby Kitch,

NOAA Ocean Acidification Program, Silver Spring, MD, USA. Yuri Artioli, Plymouth

Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, UK. Punyasloke Bhadury, Centre for Climate and

Environmental Studies, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata,

Moahnpur, Nadia, West Bengal, India. Jeremy Blackford, Plymouth Marine Laboratory,

Plymouth, UK. Odile Crabeck, Chemical Oceanography Unit, University of Liège,

Belgium. Anwesha Ghosh, Centre for Climate and Environmental Studies, Indian

Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Moahnpur, Nadia, West Bengal,

India. Yaru Li, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, UK. Kaitlyn B. Lowder,

The Ocean Foundation, Washington, DC, USA. Shreya Mehta, Geosciences Division,

Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Bryce Van Dam, Institute of

Carbon Cycles, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Geesthacht, Germany. Houda Beghoura,

Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research,

Bergen, Norway. Noam Karo, Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Resnick Sustainability

Center for Catalysis, The Nancy & Stephen Grand Technion Energy Program (GTEP),

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Andrij Z. Horodysky, James

J. Howard Laboratory, NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Highlands, NJ,

USA. Sebastian Hennige, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Sally M. Salaah, National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Cairo, Egypt.

Federica Ragazzola, Genoa Marine Center - Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Genoa,

Italy. Liza Wright-Fairbanks, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, under

contract to NOAA Ocean Acidification Program, Silver Spring, MD, USA.

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