Dear Dr. Kaye:

Thank your for submitting to Biogeosciences. Two referees believe that your work is of interest to the Biogeosciences audience. Based on your rebuttal to referees comments, I believe that a revised version is suitable for publication. I therefore invite you to submit a revised version, which after inspection by me, will likely be accepted for publication.

With best regards, Jack Middelburg, Associate Editor

Dear Dr. Kaye:

Thank you for submitting this revision of this non-standard paper to Biogeosciences. I have read your revision and I am happy to inform you that your paper is now accepted for publication in Biogeosciences.

However, while reading the final version I identified a few minor or technical corrections:

Line 67: other disciplines such as ocean sciences are similarly interdisciplinary and share equipment/infrastructure (on the same vessel). You might consider rephrasing: … has been catalyzed recently by the emergence of CZ approach” to make it more general and then mention that your CZO is used as an example.
However, I leave this at your discretion.

Line 170 and 205: you might consider using However instead of On the other hand if there is on the one hand before.

Line 195: Adding co-authors after submission (during revision phase) should be avoided: many journals are nowadays very strict on this because of authorships for sale issues.

Line 206: perhaps rephrase to …however, in chemical and life sciences the senior author …

I am looking forward seeing your paper being published.

With best regards, Jack Middelburg, Associate Editor