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In the 2016 Marine BioBlitz at Santa Monica Pier, researchers from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County collected invertebrates from the pier pilings, then hosted fourth-graders as they got to sort the samples for identification and molecular sequencing. Here’s a peek at what happened.
Photo credits: Kelsey Bailey.