David, James, Mudassir and Marvin attended the ONR-sponsored Ocean Acoustics Bootcamp held at Stony Brook's Southampton Marine Sciences Research Center.  The workshop was taught by Grant Deane (SIO), Andy Singer (SBU), Joe Warren (SBU) and John Buck.   The students worked with about 15 other grad students learning to calibrate transducers, design ocean acoustics experiments, and…

Perfect weather for another turnaround mooring cruise.   Captains Jason and Jarrett Drake brought us to our mooring on the Voyager.   This also gave new interns Piper Dienst and Nathan Winchell a chance to test their new "light bulb" crushers to create underwater impulse responses at three ranges as we approached the mooring.  We then brought…

We had another day cruise out to visit our mooring on the Encourager with Captain Jarrett Drake.  This time we did a quick turn-around: replacing the batteries and SD card with the acoustic data, then replacing the mooring to collect another 6 weeks or so of data.   Perfect weather and calm seas made for an…

We had a half-day cruise on the F/V Encourager to recover our acoustic recording mooring deployed 6 weeks earlier in Buzzards Bay.   The mooring recorded underwater acoustic data for our acoustic rainfall estimation project.   MNE MS student Patrick Pasteris rode along to test his Aurelia vertical profiler.  All photos by J. Buck unless otherwise indicated.…