This role supports surveys of mesophotic and deep benthic reef communities (50–1,800 m) using platforms such as ROVs and AUVs to detect, classify, and enumerate corals, sponges, octocorals, crustaceans, mollusks, fishes, and other fauna, including acoustic mapping of areas affected by oil or dispersant exposure, and ground-truthing to confirm habitat condition. automated processing using C-Vision tools, 2. human-in-the-loop review and correction, 3. data review and QA/QC, 4. data output/ingest into GCRF Oracle databases, and GitHub updates), including but not limited to: Subject-matter expert identifying marine fishes in all life stages from mesophotic and deep reef habitats.