| Participant | Institution |
| Jeffrey S. Amthor | U.S. Dept. of Energy |
| Robert F. Anderson | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory |
| David Archer | University of Chicago |
| Ellyn Beary | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Erin Bertrand | MIT/WHOI Joint Program |
| James K.B. Bishop | University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Stéphane Blain | CNRS and Université de la Méditerranée, France |
| Paula Bontempi | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| Philip W. Boyd | National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand |
| Edward A. Boyle | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Ken O. Buesseler | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Kent Cavender-Bares | The Heinz Center |
| Fei Chai | Univerity of Maine |
| Francisco P. Chavez | Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute |
| Sallie W. Chisholm | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Sophie Clayton | MIT/WHOI Joint Program |
| Kenneth H. Coale | Moss Landing Marine Laboratory |
| Harlan K. Cohen | IUCN-The World Conservation Union |
| John J. Cullen | Dalhousie University, Canada |
| Beth Daley | Boston Globe |
| Hein J.W. De Baar | Royal Netherlands Institute for Research |
| Kenneth L. Denman | University of Victoria, Canada |
| Scott C. Doney | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Hugh W. Ducklow | Marine Biology Laboratory |
| Paul G. Falkowski | Rutgers University |
| James R. Fleming | Colby College |
| David Flory | AES Corporation |
| Michael Fogarty | NOAA/NMFS |
| Caitlin Frame | MIT/WHOI Joint Program |
| David Freestone | The World Bank |
| Daniel Friend | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Russ George | PLANKTOS |
| Anand Gnanadesikan | NOAA/GFDL and Princeton University |
| Justin R. Grubich | U.S. State Dept. |
| David Hermann | U.S. State Dept. |
| Peter Hill | JOCI |
| Max Holmes | Woods Hole Research Center |
| Charles Hopkinson | Marine Biological Laboratory |
| Christopher Joyce | National Public Radio |
| David M. Karl | University of Hawaii |
| David Keith | University of Calgary, Canada |
| Elizabeth Kim | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
| Eli S. Kintisch | Science Magazine |
| Hauke Kite-Powell | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Phoebe J. Lam | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Richard S. Lampitt | National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK |
| Michael R. Landry | Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| Mark G. Lawrence | Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany |
| Margaret Leinen | Climos |
| Natalie Mahowald | Cornell University |
| Kanchan Maiti | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Andrew M.P. McDonnell | MIT/WHOI Joint Program |
| Dennis McGillicuddy | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Anthony F. Michaels | University of Southern California |
| Till Neeff | EcoSecurities |
| W. Brechner Owens | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Stephanie A. Owens | MIT/WHOI Joint Program |
| Mathieu Perreault | La Presse |
| Shirley A. Pomponi | Ocean Studies Board-Harbor Branch |
| Hugh D. Powell | Oceanus Magazine |
| Rosemary G. Rayfuse | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| M. Lee Rice | GreenSea Ventures, Inc. |
| Susan J. Roberts | Ocean Studies Board, The National Academies |
| Olivier J. Rouxel | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| John G. Rutherford | MacDiarmid Institutes, Iron Ore New Zealand Ltd. |
| Mak Saito | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| David Santillo | Greenpeace Research Laboratories |
| Jorge L. Sarmiento | Princeton University |
| Victor Smetacek | Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven Germany |
| Lisa Speer | Natural Resources Defense Council |
| Deborah K. Steinberg | Virginia Institute of Marine Science |
| Doug Struck | The Washington Post |
| Shigenobu Takeda | The University of Tokyo |
| Mete Uz | NOAA Global Carbon Cycle Program |
| Chris M. Vivian | Cefas Burnham Laboratory, Essex, UK |
| Brian Von Herzen | The Climate Foundation |
| Dan Walker | Office of Science and Technology Policy |
| Andy Watson | University of East Anglia, Norwich UK |
| Daniel Whaley | Climos |
| Elizabeth White | WCAI-NAN |
| Oliver Wingenter | New Mexico Tech |
| Matthew Wright | SeaWeb/COMPASS |
| Ann Zulkosky | Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard, Senate Commerce Committee |
