The ac-9 and CTD instruments are deployed and maintained by researchers at the Laboratory for Microbiological Oceanography of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.  A large number of scientific personnel and crew members are involved in the deployments.  The main participants are listed below:

Dave Karl (PI)

Lance Fujieki

Dale Hebel

Luis Tupas

Terrence Houlihan

The data are then processed by researchers at the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences of Oregon State University:

Ricardo Letelier (PI)

Iain MacCallum

Jasmine Nahorniak

Funding for this study was provided by grants OCE-0326419 (R. Letelier) and  OCE-0326616 (D. Karl) from the National Science Foundation.

Webpage by Jasmine S. Nahorniak, Oregon State University.