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COURTESY PHOTO Scientific work off Alaska From left, researchers John Trefry of the Florida Institute of Technology and Nathan McTigue of the University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas work with an apparatus used for obtaining samples of creatures from the sea bottom. The scientists were doing the work aboard a research vessel off the Alaskan coast earlier this year. Trefry and McTigue will be among scientists involved in a record $2.88 million grant recently awarded to UTMSI to finance more research off the Alaskan coast.