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5000th Sample Collected on Stellwagen Bank

By Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Photograph of USGS personnel standing next to SEABoss on the fantail of the R/V Auk
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Page Valentine, USGS Research Geologist, collects his 5000th sample on Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.  Page has been mapping the geologic substrates of Stellwagen Bank and studying the ecology of fish and invertebrate species that inhabit the bank’s sandy substrates off Boston, Massachusetts for many decades.

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