Joe Warren

Fair bit of field work last week starting w recovery and deployment of passive acoustic recorders at the Fire Island and Shinnecock artificial reefs. Bottom temps was 54F, and the biofouling was not too bad. Huge thanks to Brad, Brittney, Rebekah, and Rachel T. for dive help.

ALES night at the ballpark. I guess the quacker-noisemakers are acoustic enough to count this as a lab meeting. @somas @liducks

Nice work by Shelby Bloom and the @Scripps_AEL gang. Happy to be a part of the team.

Good week for the lab ! Successfully recovered two misbehaving instruments: bottom lander echosounder w Paige, Megan, dive buddy Brittney, and some hitchhikers; and our moored SeapHox brought back by Toniann and Tyler ! So much new data to explore! @SoMAS

Congratulations to all the SBU graduates! Really enjoyed commencement on Friday, especially getting to see some ALES undergrad all-stars: Angelina, Vikram, Madi, and Sage in our normal lab wear. @SoMAS

Leg 2 of our VAMPIRE at BATS cruise: buoys, backscatter, Gumby suits, and a gulper eel. @SoMAS @URIGSO @BIOSstation

And we are off on leg 1 of the VAMPIRE - BATS cruise in Bermuda w the team from @BIOSstation, @URIGSO, and @SoMAS Despite its name, the VAMPIRE instrument works both day and night.

After 3 weeks of being weathered out, we got a lovely day yesterday to drop a WARBLER at our wind farm study site. Thanks to Capt Brian and crew Laurence and Anthony for the help.

The lab is multitasking this week w Joe in Cape Cod Bay and @paigetorto and Dean in the Gulf of Maine w colleagues from UNH turning around landers, running acoustic surveys, and catching some chonky crustaceans. And looking for birds too. @SoMAS

Lots of gear on the FV Miss Emily as we (NOAA, Syracuse U, Ocean Alliance, WHOI, and Stony Brook) head out to Cape Cod Bay to look for copepods (ok, that's just me, everybody else is looking for right whales)

While Maxine and the @NYMarineRescue staff get most of the camera time (deservedly so), it's possible the back of my head, elbow, or shoe will make their network TV debut this Saturday morning (1130am here, but check local listings) on CBS's Extraordinary World w Jeff Corwin !

Time for MAR388's version of Where's Waldo - can you find the fish ? @SoMAS

Tropical Marine Ecology students are ready for their snorkel scavenger hunt here at Discovery Bay Marine Lab in Jamaica. Algae, fish, and inverts - go ! @SoMAS @stonybrooku

SoMAS Southampton Holiday Party awards are happening. A tradition unlike any other !

Our overview of the ADEON project just came out in Oceanography ! Landers w passive and active acoustics, sound propagation modelling, fine scale acoustic surveys, net tows, and much much more ! doi.org/10.5670/oceano…

Nice conditions for the fearless (and hopefully not frozen) foursome on our final 2024 EcoPod sampling trip.

Lots of action happening on our shelf break shakedown cruise. New vehicle VAMPIRE going thru field tests, vertically migrating zoops on the echosounder, MOCNESSing to collect cool critters like this heteropod. Funded by @NSF w colleagues from @URIGSO @MIZ_BIOS @SoMAS

Recovered our final turtle tag of the season today. 6 successful deployments - 3X our count from last summer! Huge thanks to Capts: Greg, @fishguyphotos, and Chris W and Brian @somas for assisting us w tag pick up. And to @NYMarineRescue for the turtles !

Congrats to @melissaleone_ - her 2nd MS thesis paper was recently published in JASA. Check it out if you want to know more about cod and weakfish at NY's artificial reefs ! And some dolphin info too. doi.org/10.1121/10.002… @acousticsorg @SoMAS

Had to do a quick sunrise swim, but recovered our first turtle tag of the season. These data will help us understand what sea turtles (like Mustang here) are doing when they are in New York. USFWS permit# ES70311D @somas @stonybrooku @NYMarineRescue