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Smile! You’re on Habitat Camera

Norman Vine (from Advanced Habitat Imaging Consortium), Richard Taylor (a fisherman), and WHOI biologist Scott Gallager assemble on the Iselin pier after testing the habitat camera mapping system, or HabCam, on Georges Bank. The fishing vessel Kathy Marie—heading for her home port of New Bedford, Mass.—served as the testing platform for the towed surveying vehicle. Gallager and colleagues are using HabCam to help assess populations of shellfish, finfish, and other marine populations through the Northeastern Bentho-Pelagic Observatory project.(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)