What Does it Look Like in the Middle of the Pacific Ocean?

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Fellow field-camper Jon Brack made this wicked 360 video of the Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program field camp at Pearl & Hermes atoll in the Papahanamokuakea Marine National Monument this summer. Jon was with us for six weeks at the beginning of the season [we started the end of April] and played an integral role in setting up the Pearl and Hermes camp. Aside from helping set-up camp infrastructure, he also hepled train the three of us who would remain there until mid-August by showing us how to safely navigate the atoll and survey the local Hawaiian monk seal population.

2016 Pearl and Hermes HMSRP team. 5/31 Jon's last night at camp. The next day NOAA vessel Hi'Ialakai picked Jon up and took him to Midway atoll where he worked for the HMSRP for another month. From Left to Right: Laney White, Sadie Youngstrom, April Surgent, Jon Brack