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 !

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

@MIZ_BIOS @PBattaLona @NSF @URIGSO @SoMAS I think we had some juvie aspera (blue guts) but I'm not sure if these mature ones were aspera or Thalia democratica

@MIZ_BIOS Probably should bring in a specialist

@MIZ_BIOS @anddavies Only if it has a hover mode. Water depth was 655m where we dropped it

@MIZ_BIOS It's not too late for me to pack a disco ball and my DJ equipment

@fishguyphotos is out of town, so the ALES lab is taking over this week's GeekTalk on Thursday at Ubergeek brewery in Riverhead. Delaney will be talking about bats in NY and we'll have some instruments so folks can listen to bats flying around ! Talk starts at 8pm.

@eubalaenagina Just to be clear, I was making it for me to eat while watching the defense !

@brandynlucca @OllieShipley @chris_harrod And the data analysis costs (in person time, licenses or learning curves w open source alternatives) can be comparable (or more) than the gear.

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. @acousticsorg @SoMAS

@Paolo_Segre @WillOestreich @MBARI_News Jay Barlow has a paper that estimates 37 km or 9 km (for a towed array) depending on click type. This is a great comps or problem set question - the clicks are super loud, but also highly directional. So I don't think we know the answer conclusively.

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

Brief tangent from lab science as the @somas Flukes & Flounderers beach volleyball teams got to watch horseshoe crabs in their mating huddles last night after our games. Unsure of the chances of true crustacean love as a few crabs attempted to canoodle with a rock and my foot.