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Oceanographic and
Atmospheric

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Administration is part
of the office of

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national marine
sanctuaries in the

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Papahanaumokuakea Marine
National Monument.

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I work as a marine
ecologist, I lead and

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coordinate scientific
expeditions in support

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of resources protection
in the area. Exploration

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has an enormous value I
think, every single one

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of us at some point has
this dream of becoming

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either an astronaut or
an explorer and most

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people at some point in
their lives start

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thinking that we know
everything there is to

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be known, but the truth
is that we don't know

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even the slightest thing
there is about the vast

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majority of the what the
planet is. In two

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thousand fifteen in the
expedition with the

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Okeanos Explorer we had
a total of eighteen

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dives, both inside and
very close to the

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boundaries of the
Papahanaumokuakea Marine

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National Monument. And
in this very short

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period of time, just
over three weeks, we

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imaged many hundreds of
species that were not

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known to exist in this
region. We also

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collected a limited
amount of samples, so we

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came back with thirty
five biological

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specimens, and every
single one of these

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specimens turns out to
be either completely new

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species or a species
that did not know

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existed here in this
area.