Contact: Sandra Hines
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University of Washington
Caption: The box shows the approximately 2-square-mile area 30 miles west of Grays Harbor where University of Washington scientists, on an expedition funded by the UW Washington Sea Grant and School of Oceanography, discovered both large colonies of glass sponges and copious amounts of methane flowing from the seafloor.
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