We would like to thank the student volunteers Marlene Kaljumäe, Pille Leesmäe, and Laura Johanna Kadak, for their help with organizing the workshop. We also appreciate Maria Cecilia Sarmiento Guerin and her team for providing the lab space and equipment for the workshop. Special thanks go to Philipp Braun for his assistance with collecting the water samples and conducting microscopic cell counts for IOW, Madeleine Nilsson for collecting and filtering the SMHI samples, Kristín J. Valsdóttir for microscopic counting of phytoplankton at the MFRI, Anne Doner for microscopic cell counts in Ifremer, Eirikur Danielsen for microscopic cell counts and Elin Egholm for filtering the water samples at Firum, Maria Immonen for sample collection and filtering, Johanna Oja and Heidi Hällfors for the microscopical analysis of the Syke samples and Lubova Baraskova for collecting and filtering the LHEI samples.
This project was funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers (Project 240002).