The ADEON research team is preparing to go to work on the U.S. outer continental shelf (OCS) of the mid-Atlantic Ocean. The crew will head out of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts on the research vessel R/V Neil Armstrong this November 19^th.   

Science objectives for this voyage include the maiden deployment of the Atlantic Deepwater Ecosystem Observatory Network (ADEON).   The team will deploy an array of seven bottom landers containing a variety of soundscape measurement instruments along with instruments that will measure water chemistries and count tagged fish that swim by the landers.  The landers were designed, built, and tested as part of Phase I (Bruce Martin, JASCO was the phase lead) for this project. 

The photos shown here depict the landers during testing and being packaged for shipment to WHOI where the team will be loading them on the vessel as they set out to sea.