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We produce quite a lot of data that's
immediately available to the public and

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with some immediate information
returns. For instance, in this Canyon

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cruise, we've identified sensitive coral
habitats that were not known before and

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located them accurately, which was not
known before. We've identified a methane

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coal seep which we thought was in this
canyon but now we know it is for sure. We

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will, my colleague and I, Dr. Brooke, will
go back after this cruise and draw boxes

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around these areas and propose to the
management councils that these areas be

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protected and we'll have information to
back that up.

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What I do for the most part

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is provide scientific information to our
policy department, so that the policy

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amendments that they are requesting from
Congress are scientifically defensible.

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I also hold the conservation seat for the
Olympic Coast National Marine

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Sanctuary Advisory Council and I work
with the fisheries management councils

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to advocate for and provide scientific
information for protection,

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primarily of deep coral habitats, but
also other vulnerable ecosystems.

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The councils are very receptive to this
kind of information and have used our data

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like this before, so that is of an
immediate benefit to the public.

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Quite often in this kind of work, the
sorts of things that we collect, and

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this diverse team collects, appear to be
esoteric and not useful. But, it's amazing

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how in the future people look back on
these kinds of collections and say,

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"Oh I'm really glad they collected that, we
didn't know that was useful but now it's

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is of vital importance."