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Allen Aven, graduate student in marine sciences at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, listens to beeps from a VHF signal emitted by a tag tethered to tail of Bama, a 1000-pound manatee, which he is tracking in Scipio Creek off the Apalachicola River in Florida, Friday, June 18, 2010, in order to observe her behavior. Aven is closely monitoring Bama, and Bumpy, two manatees tagged by the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, for changes in their behavior since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Manatee search

Toward the end of June, I got the opportunity to go to Apalachicola, Florida for a New York Times assignment to photograph Mobile Manatees’s Allen Aven and Nicole Taylor trying to locate and monitor a manatee named Bama. They were looking … Read More

Jessica & Page

Moments moments moments. The wedding day from beginning to happy ending.

Scenes of life from Gulf Shores, Alabama

Travel story for LA Times

Jeff spent the Fourth of July at Gulf Shores shooting a travel story for the LA Times. It seems so long ago now. The crowds that weekend were underwhelming to say the least. The oil spill was on everyone’s minds … Read More