Hello from Cassie Fries on the R/V Endeavor! Now fully acclimated to our night shift schedule, we work from 8pm to 8am doing everything from net tows with an IKMT horizontal net, vertical tows with a bongo net, sorting, animal identification, and even help out the day crew with lander retrieval when needed (when the sun comes up). Going to bed after breakfast and waking up around dinner time might sound hard, but when we’re this busy during the night it gets easy to switch your schedule to be nocturnal.

At daybreak, both the science and ship crew were happy to watch the second lander pop to the surface after spending the last 6 months sitting on the seafloor collecting data. After it was brought on board, a team of people started taking it a part to download data, replace batteries, remove/replace rusted hardware, and prep the lander to be deployed again. It is like a raceway pit crew descending upon the lander to get it ready for the next deployment just hours after it came on board. We are now on our way to the third ADEON location labelled CHB (Charleston Bump) on the ADEON webpage map (click on "read more" just below to get to the maps).

Waiting to see if an instrument that you put 100s of meters below the sea surface six months ago is going to come back up when it should? think - - - Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit lonely- And you're never coming round. Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit nervous- That the best of all the acoustics have gone by. Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit terrified- That there's nothing more from little AMAR .......

My name is Katharine Coykendall. I work for USGS in Kearneysville, West Virginia. Our lab has a broad interest in the connections and relatedness between biological communities and as well as the biodiversity in marine ecosystems. We use genetics and genomics as tools to answer those types of questions, just like forensic crime labs and genealogical websites, but we are looking for connections between marine organisms.

Hello! I’m Carmen Lawrence, and equipment technician from Halifax, Nova Scotia. I work for JASCO Applied Sciences, a company that specializes in passive underwater acoustics. My primary role at JASCO is maintaining oceanographic equipment and preparing moorings for deployment at sea. Today was an exciting day, as we successfully retrieved the first lander and deployed the new lander in the same location. Everything went very smooth and according to plan - thanks to the professional crew aboard the R/V Endeavor.

My name is Brandyn Lucca and I am a PhD student at Stony Brook University. I am primarily focused on how sound bounces off of different types of animals, which is important for converting acoustic backscatter measured by scientific echosounders into estimates of abundance and biomass. Likewise, understanding their acoustic signatures/fingerprints allows us to classify aggregations and schools we observe from the acoustic backscatter data.

Hello from the R/V Endeavor! My name is Stephen Ell, I am going into my junior year studying ocean engineering at the University of New Hampshire. I am a part of the ocean lander retrieval, maintenance, and deployment team working alongside our JASCO technician.

I am aboard this vessel as a representative of a related National Oceanographic Partnership Program project called DEEP SEARCH (DEEP Sea Exploration to Advance Research on Coral/Canyon/Cold seep Habitats program). The focus of which is to improve our understanding of the distribution of these ecosystems to properly manage them.

Hey everyone! My name is Pete Larios and I am a volunteer on the ADEON cruise as well as a recent graduate of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. Right now we are about a one day steam from our first station off the coast of Florida and making about 11 knots. The seas are pretty calm, about 3 to 5 feet, with the forecast predicting even calmer weather through the middle of the week.