**About the Editors**

**Hidekatsu Yamazaki** is distinguished professor at College of Marine Ecology and Environment, Shanghai Ocean University and emeritus professor of Department of Ocean Sciences, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology. He received Ph.D. in ocean engineering from Texas A&M University in 1984. He worked at Department of Oceanography, Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and switched his expertise from ocean engineering to oceanography. His interest in oceanic microstructures, particularly turbulence and plankton, started at NPS. He also worked at Chesapeake Bay Institute, Johns Hopkins University and School of Earth and Ocean Science, University of Victoria before he returned to Japan in 1993. His research spans from oceanic microstructures to fisheries ground environments as well as various biophysical coupling problems.

**J. Rudi Strickler** (officially Johann Rudolf Strickler), born and raised in Switzerland. 1969 Dr.sc.nat. at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH-Z). Former positions: Principal Research Scientist, Australian Institute of Marine Sciences. Faculty positions at Johns Hopkins University, Yale University, University of Ottawa, University of Southern California, Boston University. Currently Shaw Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Research on the biology-physics intersection at the temporal and spatial scales of the zooplankton.
