The ADEON Cruise 4 Science Crew includes Chief Scientist Dr. Joe Warren, 3 Research Scientists, 1 Artist, 9 graduate/undergraduate students, and me (Jennifer Miksis-Olds, Lead Principal Investigator of the ADEON project). This is our 4th project cruise out of 5.

And we are off to sea! The RV Armstrong left the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution dock this morning at 8:30am EST and we have begun our transit to our first science station down off the Virginia coast. This is the fourth cruise on the ADEON (Atlantic Deepwater Ecosystem Observatory Network) project. We have 7 sites along the continental shelf-break (where the water depth goes from ~ 200 m to 4000 m) from Virginia down to Florida where we have bottom landers that are sampling the environment and soundscapes continuously over the past year.