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View of the ocean from above during an aerial photographic survey

By Western Ecological Research Center (WERC)
View of the ocean from above through a window in a plane, with 3 cameras and other equipment near the window.
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Camera set-up and pyrometer collecting sea surface temperature measurements during a survey Fall 2018.

The Seabird Studies Team at the USGS Western Ecological Research Center is conducting aerial photographic surveys of the ocean off central and southern California to create comprehensive maps of seabird and marine mammal distributions.

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