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Eddie Hughes is a part-time graduate student at the University of South Florida\u2019s College of Marine Science under the guidance of Dr. David Naar.\u00a0 Eddie’s research focus is on the use of scientific acoustic echosounders to examine reef fish communities along the West Florida shelf.\u00a0 Since enrolling in 2013, Eddie has been overseeing the collection of acoustic data using the SIMRAD EK60 split-beam echosounder (38 kHz) aboard FIO’s\u00a0Weatherbird II<\/i>.\u00a0 These acoustic data were collected in conjunction with Dr. Steve Murawski and his team’s collection of video and\u00a0physical oceanographic data using the CBASS system, that has been extensively towed over areas of exposed hardbottom and pipeline.\u00a0 As part of his PhD research,\u00a0Eddie will be processing and analyzing these acoustic data using Echoview software and using the collected video data for groundtruthing and comparison in efforts to characterize reef fish communities acoustically.<\/p>\n