Oceanographer. Bioacoustician. Professor at Stony Brook University. Slightly-better-than-mediocre beach volleyball player.
New York, USA
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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.
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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.
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Congratulations to Charleigh on a successful MS presentation today. Not included in the photo are the 14 sea turtles contributing to her research.
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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 !
ALT ALES Lab members summer 2026
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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
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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
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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…
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Leg 2 of our VAMPIRE at BATS cruise: buoys, backscatter, Gumby suits, and a gulper eel. @SoMAS @URIGSO @BIOSstation
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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.
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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.
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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
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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)
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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 !
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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
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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/oceanog.2025…
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Nice conditions for the fearless (and hopefully not frozen) foursome on our final 2024 EcoPod sampling trip.
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I think we had some juvie aspera (blue guts) but I'm not sure if these mature ones were aspera or Thalia democratica
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@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.
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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 !
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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/10.1121/10.0026461 @acousticsorg @SoMAS
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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
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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.
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Want to see how Hamptons helicopter and private jet flights vary over a week ? Or how often fishing boats visit NY's artificial reefs ? Check out @MelissaLeone_ first pub from her @SoMAS MS thesis - using passive acoustics to study local soundscapes. authors.elsevier.com/a/1j9OG…
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The science team seems to have misplaced our bottom landers. Oh wait, that's right - we deployed them today in great conditions w the fantastic @SoMAS RV Paumanok Capt and crew. Thanks Brian, Chris, and Matt !
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Want to know how much energy copepods in NY can provide to predators ? Check out recent @SoMAS MS graduate Rachel Carlowicz Lee's new JPR paper. academic.oup.com/plankt/adva…
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Not as sunny today in the Gulf of Maine, but copepods, krill, shrimp, and a (sea) bird. Thanks to @paigetorto and @UNHMarine vessel crew for a successful sampling trip.
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Our NH lighthouse tour, er, I mean our Wilkinson Basin Monitoring trip has begun ! @SoMAS #unh #onr #internalwaves #zooplankton
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Congrats to Katy on her URECA poster looking at zooplankton and phytoplankton abundances in the New York Bight ! @SoMAS undergrad research
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The fab four MOBing for our spring ECOPOD cruise. Smooth seas tonight. Huge thanks to @SoMAS Capts Brian and Chris W for squeezing our trip in between undergrad lab cruises!
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Great talks by Dean and Maxine at the Long Island Natural History Conference today. And they even let me talk about heteropods !
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Very excited to join L&0 as an associate editor ! Looking forward to helping folks get their research published in one of my favorite journals. aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley…
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Congrats to Maxine from @NYMarineRescue / @SoMAS on a great presentation at the 42nd Sea Turtle Symposium.
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So many great talks and ideas at #ZPS7, but my personal meeting highlight is catching up w my advisor Peter Wiebe ! Peter has been to 6 of the 7 zooplankton symposia (first one occurred when he was an undergrad). Amazing !
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Paige found lots of copepods. 3 landers dropped, 3 landers recovered. Now running back to CT before this storm comes thru. #aeon #gulfofmaine
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Here we go again - it's the annual AEON Gulf of Maine lander turnaround jamboree ! This year onboard the @UConnAveryPoint RV Connecticut.
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The ALES Lab Spring 2024 Inelastic Collision Field Experiment was a success! No injuries and Monique squeaked out a 2 pin victory (via a very non-linear Joe-created scoring algorithm) over Dean to win the coveted What The Fish card game prize.
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It's great that @HannahB_913 has a huge crowd at her ocean sciences poster, but her fans keep asking me to move ! (Somehow we got assigned side-by-side slots)
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Congratulations to @MelissaLeone_ on successfully presenting her Masters Thesis today. Three (!) chapters covering both marine and terrestrial soundscapes, organisms, and human noise. Great job !
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It's a public lecture frenzy for ALES this week. Tonight at 8pm, grad student Dean Hernandez will be talking about his aerial surveys of nearshore fish (and things that eat them!) at @fishguyphotos Geek Talk series at Ubergeek Brewery in Riverhead
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Happening now ! Melissa Leone's public lecture on plovers, fish, marine mammals and more ! stonybrook.zoom.us/j/9902596…
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New or soon to be grad students consider applying to SeaBASS (Jun 23-28). It's a free (other than travel), one week crash course in underwater sound, networking, meeting peers from all over, and a chance to beat me in mini golf! Apps due Mar 15: eos.unh.edu/center-acoustics…
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