Lots of action happening on our shelf break shakedown cruise. New vehicle VAMPIRE going thru field tests, vertically migrating zoops on the echosounder, MOCNESSing to collect cool critters like this heteropod. Funded by U.S. National Science Foundation w colleagues from URI Graduate School of Oceanography Leocadio Blanco-Bercial School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at SBU

Nice conditions for the fearless (and hopefully not frozen) foursome on our final 2024 EcoPod sampling trip.

Our overview of the ADEON project just came out in Oceanography ! Landers w passive and active acoustics, sound propagation modelling, fine scale acoustic surveys, net tows, and much much more ! doi.org/10.5670/oceano…

SoMAS Southampton Holiday Party awards are happening. A tradition unlike any other !

Tropical Marine Ecology students are ready for their snorkel scavenger hunt here at Discovery Bay Marine Lab in Jamaica. Algae, fish, and inverts - go ! School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at SBU Stony Brook University

Time for MAR388's version of Where's Waldo - can you find the fish ? School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at SBU

While Maxine and the NY Marine Rescue Center staff get most of the camera time (deservedly so), it's possible the back of my head, elbow, or shoe will make their network TV debut this Saturday morning (1130am here, but check local listings) on CBS's Extraordinary World w Jeff Corwin !

Lots of gear on the FV Miss Emily as we (NOAA, Syracuse U, Ocean Alliance, WHOI, and Stony Brook) head out to Cape Cod Bay to look for copepods (ok, that's just me, everybody else is looking for right whales)

The lab is multitasking this week w Joe in Cape Cod Bay and paigeee and Dean in the Gulf of Maine w colleagues from UNH turning around landers, running acoustic surveys, and catching some chonky crustaceans. And looking for birds too. School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at SBU

After 3 weeks of being weathered out, we got a lovely day yesterday to drop a WARBLER at our wind farm study site. Thanks to Capt Brian and crew Laurence and Anthony for the help.

And we are off on leg 1 of the VAMPIRE - BATS cruise in Bermuda w the team from BIOS | Arizona State University, URI Graduate School of Oceanography, and School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at SBU Despite its name, the VAMPIRE instrument works both day and night.

Leg 2 of our VAMPIRE at BATS cruise: buoys, backscatter, Gumby suits, and a gulper eel. School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at SBU URI Graduate School of Oceanography BIOS | Arizona State University

Congratulations to all the SBU graduates! Really enjoyed commencement on Friday, especially getting to see some ALES undergrad all-stars: Angelina, Vikram, Madi, and Sage in our normal lab wear. School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at SBU

Good week for the lab ! Successfully recovered two misbehaving instruments: bottom lander echosounder w Paige, Megan, dive buddy Brittney, and some hitchhikers; and our moored SeapHox brought back by Toniann and Tyler ! So much new data to explore! School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at SBU

Nice work by Shelby Bloom and the Scripps Acoustic Ecology gang. Happy to be a part of the team.

ALES night at the ballpark. I guess the quacker-noisemakers are acoustic enough to count this as a lab meeting. @somas @liducks

Fair bit of field work last week starting w recovery and deployment of passive acoustic recorders at the Fire Island and Shinnecock artificial reefs. Bottom temps was 54F, and the biofouling was not too bad. Huge thanks to Brad, Brittney, Rebekah, and Rachel T. for dive help.

Congrats to Monique Escalante on her successful MS presentation today on copepod abundances in and around the New York Bight ! Great work Monique ! School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at SBU Stony Brook University

Grad student Dean Hernandez (and some old guy) was interviewed on WLIW this AM to promote his Geek talk on bunker and the various animals that eat them at Ubergeek Brewery in Riverhead this Thursday (Aug 21). Talk starts at 8pm. School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at SBU WLIW-FM wliw.org/radio/captivat…

With the start of the fall semester today, I wanted to thank everybody in the ALES lab (plus Consuelo who wasn't present for the lab pic) for a great summer of fieldwork, lab work, data analysis, and odd lab snacks. These are the people who make our science move forward ! School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at SBU