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Big Sur viewed from a plane above the ocean

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Late spring snow on the Santa Lucia Mountains in Big Sur while conducting aerial surveys offshore.

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. Learn more here.

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