CAT 2.22 - Cataloging Critters

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During the expedition, researchers from the University of Queensland carried out dozens of net trawls with the help of the AUV team. Every day, more specimens came aboard and that meant that the science team had to spend hours in the wet lab organizing, identifying, preserving, and packing hundreds of organisms. There were dozens of species of animals - and most of them were creatures none of us had ever seen before. The live catches proved to be one of the highlights of the expedition. The results of these efforts will benefit organizations and research initiatives around the world, including the Census of Marine Life and scientists at more than a dozen universities. In the end, the science program was one of the most far-reaching successes of our journey.

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