Hello everyone! My name is Carmen Lawrence, a project scientist at JASCO Applied Sciences. My primary focus during this cruise is the successful retrieval, refurbishment, and deployment of our acoustic monitoring stations, “landers”, at each of the seven stations.

My name is Brandyn Lucca; if you’ve been following our adventures at sea since 2017, you may recognize my name from the previous trips. But if not, I am a PhD student in Dr. Joseph Warren’s lab at Stony Brook University. I am particularly interested in improving the ways we monitor and count prey—like zooplankton such as myctophids, shrimp, and krill that are consumed by whales, and other predators—by using remote sensing techniques like underwater acoustics.