Drop-Camera Benefits for Sponge Reef Monitoring
600 views · Published 21 March 2013 · 2:25 · Indexed 29 September 2026
Channel: Vancouver Aquarium · 2013 · Pets & Animals
New biodiversity discoveries are emerging from a novel collaboration involving drop-camera technology. Kelsey Dennison, a former Vancouver Aquarium volunteer, has been collaborating with Aquarium scientists Jeff Marliave and Donna Gibbs to reveal new findings about the biodiversity on glass sponge reefs (called bioherms) that occur throughout Howe Sound and elsewhere in British Columbia, but nowhere else on earth. Kelsey's father, Glen Dennison, a founder of the Underwater Council of B.C., is a professional engineer who put the device together and provides vessel support for Kelsey's survey transects. Read more on AquaBlog: http://www.aquablog.ca/2013/03/drop-camera-benefits-for-sponge-reef-monitoring/
