| GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel | Germany |  |
| Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (MPI) | Germany |  |
| Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung | Germany |  |
| Bielefeld University | Germany |  |
| Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar & Marine Research (AWI) | Germany |  |
| Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH | Germany |  |
| Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) | Germany |  |
| MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Science, University | Germany |  |
| National Oceanography Centre, Natural Environment Research Council | United Kingdom |  |
| Natural History Museum London | United Kingdom |  |
| University of Southampton | United Kingdom |  |
| NIOZ - Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research | Netherlands |  |
| International Research Institute of Stavanger | Norway |  |
| Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) | Norway |  |
| Centre for Geobiology, University of Bergen | Norway |  |
| University of Aviero | Portugal |  |
| University of the Azores | Portugal |  |
| Ghent University | Belgium |  |
| Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) | Belgium |  |
| University of Szczecin | Poland |  |
| University of Łódź | Poland |  |
| Ifremer | France |  |
| CoNISMa - Inter-University Consortium for Marine Science, Polythechnic University of Marche | Italy |  |
| University of Gothenburg | Sweden |  |
| National Institute of Research and Development for Marine Geology and Geo-Ecology | Romania |  |