ADEON Cruise 2 – Blog post 1 (5 June 2018)

Preparations for ADEON Cruise 2 are in full swing.  In December of 2017, ADEON Cruise 1 deployed 7 ocean bottom landers off the Outer Continental Shelf from Florida up to Virginia.  Our goal for this cruise is to retrieve all 7 landers, download data, and redeploy; conduct fine-scale acoustic surveys and net tows, and collect all the necessary metadata to fully interpret both the vessel and lander acoustic time series. The 14 person science crew all arrived safely in San Juan, Puerto Rico to meet the R/V Endeavor.  Under the direction of Chief Scientist, Dr. Joe Warren (Stony Brook University), we leave tomorrow for the three week cruise from San Juan to Narragansett, RI.  Right now the science party is frantically trying to inventory the items that have arrived via shipment, boat, and plane; set up work spaces; and securely latch down anything that can move once we are under way.  Throughout the cruise, you will hear from each member of the science crew and gain the “life at sea” perspective from undergraduates, graduate students, a post-doc, research faculty, and an artist.  I’m keeping this short so today so that I can get back to the many tasks that need to get done before we leave the dock tomorrow.

Jennifer Miksis-Olds (University of New Hampshire)

ADEON Lead PI