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WHOI research specialist Frank Bahr (left) and oceanographer Jerry Dean recover the Seasoar towed vehicle (with a mounted video plankton recorder) in February 1997 from the research vessel Oceanus. The effort was part of the Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics (GLOBEC) program to investigate how climate change may affect the abundance of creatures in the sea. (Photo by Christopher Griner, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)