SEAPEN was founded by two undergraduate oceanography students, Atticus Carter and Kristine Prado-Casillas at the University of Washington. As biological oceanographers we quickly came to find a huge problem within our field. Every day, a huge backlog of high-quality photographic data has been building up in institutional servers. Due to the scale of these datasets, they very often remain underutilized or never analyzed at all. That's where SEAPEN comes in. By harnessing the backlog of photos and videos taken across the oceans, we are able to train many high-quality image detection models. Using these models both on backlogged datasets and new oceanographic surveys, SEAPEN finally allows professional oceanographers and government agencies alike to obtain statistically meaningful data from their videos and images.