Sönke Dangendorf (Co-Team Leader), Research Institute for Water and Environment (fwu), University of Siegen, Germany (http://www.bau.uni-siegen.de/fwu/wb/mitarbeiter/dangendorf/)

Marta Marcos (Co-Team Leader, IMEDEA, Spain (https://imedea.uib-csic.es/ficha.php?pid=138)

Roland Gehrels, University of York, UK (https://www.york.ac.uk/environment/our-staff/roland-gehrels/)

Robert Kopp, Rutgers University, USA (http://www.bobkopp.net/)

Eduardo Zorita, Helmholtz Centre Geesthacht, Germany (http://eduardozorita.blogspot.de/)

Francisco M. Calafat, National Oceanography Centre Liverpool, UK (http://noc.ac.uk/about-us/staff/fmc1q07)

Roelof Rietbroek, University of Bonn, Germany (http://wobbly.earth/)

Ole Anderson, Danish Technical University, Denmark (http://www.dtu.dk/english/service/phonebook/person?id=38307&tab=1)

Aimée Slangen, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Netherlands (http://aimeeslangen.blogspot.de/)

Philip R. Thompson, University of Hawaii (UHSLC), USA (http://uhslc.soest.hawaii.edu/about/people/)

Benjamin D. Hamlington, Old Dominion University, USA (https://www.odu.edu/directory/people/b/bhamling)

Carling Hay, Havard University & Boston College, USA (http://www.carlinghay.com/)

Guy Wöppelmann, University of LA Rochelle, France (http://lienss.univ-larochelle.fr/Guy-Woppelmann-1337)

Alvaro Santamaria Gomez, Université de Toulouse, France (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alvaro_Santamaria-Gomez)

Christopher G. Piecuch, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA (http://www.whoi.edu/profile.do?id=cpiecuch)

Thomas Frederikse, Technical University Delft, Netherlands (https://www.tudelft.nl/en/staff/t.frederikse/?no_cache=1&cHash=)

Svetlana Jevrejeva, National Oceanography Centre Liverpool, UK (http://noc.ac.uk/about-us/staff/sveta)

Matthias Mengel, Postdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany (http://www.pik-potsdam.de/~mengel/)

First Mini Kick-off with team members who attended at the Sea Level Conference in New York in July 2017 (Foto: R. Gehrels)