I am Cristian Graupe, a 1st year graduate student in Ocean Engineering at URI. I am a volunteer for this cruise, helping recover, refurbish, and deploy the acoustic landers. Today was yet another exciting day of transit aboard the R/V Endeavor, leaving us with plenty of time to take good care of our first recovered sub sea station and give it a nice, well deserved cleaning. Turns out, spending 6 months at the bottom of the ocean can take quite a toll on hardware.

Hello from the first full night shift at the Endeavor! I'm Julia, a PhD Student at Duke University, and this is my first research cruise. All of us are excited to get to work after four days or so of transit and (for some of us) sea sickness.

Thankfully yesterday, the wind and waves calmed down quite a bit and I was able to be a social human once again and hang out with everyone! In an attempt to train our bodies to be on the night shift timeline, we stayed up all night playing games—Taboo and Monopoly Deal—and made our way to the bridge to stargaze, a few of us even saw shooting stars!

November 4, 2018: Hello from the R/V Endeavor! Kate here as a UNOLS volunteer from Portland State University. Due to weather we were forced to come farther south to begin the science. I started bright and early at 0600 for the first Marine Mammal Observation (MMO). It was a beautiful sunrise but alas there were no sea critters to be spotted.

Hi all, Quintin here! I’m a volunteer from Maine, pitching in on ADEON 3 before I continue on to graduate school in 2019. It’s day three of our overall cruise, and as we’re now in day two of rougher waters, our rocky transit down south has been less than calming for most people’s stomachs, including my own. As I’m writing this in what I believe is my *looks at watch* 40th hour of being confined to my bunk by the looming threat of seasickness, I can’t help but admit that I have seen little outside the ship’s portholes besides a stormy sea.

I am Chloe Nunn, a recently finished graduate student from the University of Southampton,UK bringing you one of today’s blog posts from the R/V Endeavor! We are currently passing the Carolina’s, having skipped a couple stations due to inclement weather. Hopefully we will be able to start this evening at the next station.

I am Hali Rederer, a graduate student in the Biological Science Department at California State University Sacramento. As a volunteer on a twenty day scientific cruise aboard the RV Endeavor I will be occasionally blogging about the science and the people aboard. This blog results from an interview I conducted with a member of the ship’s crew.

Hello from the R/V Endeavor! My name is Cassie Fries, and this is my second ADEON cruise. It’s nice to be back on the same ship as last time, making our set up and organization of equipment way easier since we have done this before. Coming back to the ship felt like a natural transition, making the next three weeks at sea easier (I even got my same bunk as last time).

We are currently ~10 hours away from our first site off the coast of Virginia; however, if you had read Joe’s previous blog post, you will remember that the marine forecast does not look amazing. That is still the case now, as confirmed by both the marine forecast and my grueling bout with sea sickness yesterday and this morning (spoiler alert: I lost said bout).

Hi everyone! I’m Carmen Lawrence, an equipment technician at JASCO Applied Sciences from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. This is my third ADEON cruise and I’m very excited to be back with the team. We’ve officially completed the first day of ADEON Cruise 3!