International Research Platform (IRPC) Prof. James McWilliams Professor Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences UCLA Email : jcm@atmos.ucla.edu Prof. Katja Fennel Departmental Chair, Professor Department of Oceanography Dalhousie University Email : katja.fennel@dal.ca Prof. Sergei Katsev Professor of Physics and Astronomy and the Large Lakes Observatory University of Minnesota Duluth Email : skatsev@d.umn.edu Prof. Matthias Peichl Professor Department of Forest Ecology & Management Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Email : Matthias.Peichl@slu.se Prof. Sean Crowe Canada Research Chair in Geomicrobiology Associate Professor in Microbiology & Immunology and EOAS The University of British Columbia Email : sean.crowe@ubc.ca Prof. Bo Qiu Professor Department of Oceanography University of Hawaii at Manoa Email : bo@soest.hawaii.edu