Great presentation by Megan as part of her MS thesis work today. What can we learn by measuring nearly 20,000 copepods ?

So after 2 decades, it was time to update the lab logo. So there's new lab swag (hi-vis for safety) for the first day of school next week. Thx to bruck_heather (on IG) for the great graphic design.

Congrats to Paige on her successful MS presentation today. As a reward(?) Paige gets to spend 3 weeks on a boat in the Gulf of Maine w me next month.

Congratulations to Charleigh on a successful MS presentation today. Not included in the photo are the 14 sea turtles contributing to her research.

Another field season is rapidly speeding by, but want to acknowledge everybody in the lab for all their efforts this summer (not shown: Emely, Nicholas, and Joseph) as these are the people who do the science !

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/career…

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/career…

We are recruiting a funded PhD student on sea turtle habitat usage in NY waters. Ideal candidates will have a MS degree and experience: at sea, animal tag (IMU) data, and 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 odd lab snacks. These are the people who make our science move forward ! @SoMAS

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. @SoMAS @WLIWfm wliw.org/radio/captivate-pod…

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

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.