Michael Beman of the University of California Merced, Nicole Goebel of University of California Santa Cruz, Andrew Lucas, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Tracy Villareal of the University of Texas and oceanographer Elise Ralph of the Boston software company Wise Eddy.
The remaining two panelists, Ralph D'Agostino of Boston University and JoAnn Lindenfeld of the University of Colorado, did not return requests for comment.