Congratulations to Dean Hernandez who presented his MS thesis research on counting Atlantic menhaden (bunker) from drone surveys and from space ! Also present were a flock of Dean doppelgangers.

We are also hiring a research support specialist (technician). If you like boats, fish or zooplankton, active acoustics, etc; this is a great opportunity. Applications due: Jan 18th ! stonybrooku.taleo.net/careersectio...

Come join ALES ! We are hiring a post-doc to work on projects involving long term monitoring w upward looking echosounders and ship-based net and acoustic sampling. Applications due Jan 18. stonybrooku.taleo.net/careersectio...

We are recruiting a funded PhD student to study sea turtle habitat usage in NY. Ideal candidates will have a MS degree and experience: at sea, animal tag (IMU) data, and in programming. Send resume and code examples to joe.warren at stonybrook with TURTLE PHD as the subject line

With the start of the fall semester today, I wanted to thank everybody in the ALES lab (plus Consuelo who wasn't present for the lab pic) for a great summer of fieldwork, lab work data analysis, and weird lab snacks. These are the people who make our science move forward !

Grad student Dean Hernandez (and some old guy) was interviewed on WLIW this AM to promote his Geek talk on bunker and the various animals that eat them at Ubergeek Brewery in Riverhead this Thursday (Aug 21). Talk starts at 8pm. @stonybrooku.bsky.social @wliw.bsky.social www.wliw.org/radio/captiv...

Congrats to Monique Escalante on her successful MS presentation today on copepod abundances in and around the New York Bight ! Great work Monique !

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 were a toasty 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. @liducks.bsky.social @stonybrooku.bsky.social

Nice work by Shelby and the Scripps Acoustic Ecology gang. Happy to be a part of the team.

Some great shots of VAMPIRE's field trials last month in Bermuda

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! @stonybrooku.bsky.social

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. @stonybrooku.bsky.social

Leg 2 of our VAMPIRE at BATS cruise: buoys, backscatter, Gumby suits, and a gulper eel. @stonybrooku.bsky.social @biosstation.bsky.social @urigso.bsky.social

And we are off on leg 1 of the VAMPIRE - BATS cruise in Bermuda w the team from @biosstation.bsky.social , @urigso.bsky.social , and @stonybrooku.bsky.social 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 Paige 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. @stonybrooku.bsky.social

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)