June 12, 2018

We are now on our way to the third ADEON location labelled CHB (Charleston Bump) on the ADEON webpage map.  We just had a very crazy, but productive, day at the JAX location. 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.

The lander was just re-deployed a few hours ago now, but it left behind an absolute ton of data.  The data processing will take months, and there is even a larger team assembled back on land to churn through the data processing. I can’t wait to see what the data shows. I’ll probably take a sneak peek before we return to the dock on June 25.

Jen Miksis-Olds, ADEON Lead PI