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ADEON - SUBMITTED  
UNOLS Project ID: 105578 URI Serial #: None
Date Submitted: 12/27/2016 2:06:00 PM Last Modified: 1/12/2017 2:48:00 PM
Status: Submitted Version #: 4
Principal Investigator (PI) Contact Information
Jennifer Miksis-Olds
 Center for Acoustics Research & Education UNH 		(401) 580-0218
 (603) 862-0839 (fax)
 j^%^%^miksisolds*%*%*unh^%^%^edu
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) & other collaborators Contact Information
NONE
Project Information (Proposal, Grant, Project, Contract, Program)
Project Title: Atlantic Deepwater Ecosystem Observatory Network (ADEON): An Integrated System
Program Name: National Ocean Partnership Program  
Scientific Discipline: Multi-Disciplinary Acoustics, Oceanography
Project Status: Funded Contract/Project
Project Funding Agencies:
Agency/Division/Program Grant or Project Number Funding Status
NAVY/ONR M16PC00003 Funded
Other Agency or Program Description:
Project Institution: University of New Hampshire
Institution Project #:
Project Start Date: 9/19/2016
End Date: 9/18/2021
Proposal Deadline
(proposal date):		  
Total Project Budget: $6,500,000
Project Description and Facility Requirements
Project Web Page:
Summary of Field Work: Deploy 7 long-term moorings with passive acoustics and full complement of oceanographic and met measurement systems. These moorings will be nominally distributed over a 1000 km line along the 1000 m isobath in the Outer Continental Shelf area of the Atlantic off the southeast of the US. The moorings will be deployed and tested over 2-3 weeks. Long-time series data will be collected over multiple years. After initial deployment it is anticipated that each mooring will need to be visited for serving every 6-12 months.

Five research cruises will occur throughout this project at regularly scheduled intervals (Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Fall 2019 and Fall 2020) to recover and redeploy moorings, launch and recover the HLA glider, and to collect ship-board data for ground-truthing, for inter-calibration of mooring data, and for examination of spatial and temporal patterns in ocean sound and the distribution/abundance of biological organisms in the study region. Cruises approximately two weeks in duration will employ a combination of station sampling (CTD casts, net tow) at each mooring site, as well as fine-scale lawn-mower pattern transect sampling covering an area roughly 18 km by 18 km around each mooring site. Additional transect and station sampling will occur during transits between mooring sites (to further characterize cross-shelf, cross-Gulf Stream, and latitudinal gradients) as conditions and time permit. The glider path plan will be designed ahead of time carefully combining mooring location, ship operations schedule, location of the Gulf Stream, and local currents. High-resolution remote sensing data will be acquired prior to and during each cruise to direct cruise sampling and provide synoptic ancillary data over the entire study region.
Summary of Facility Requirements: - Echosounder pole mount OR hull mounted Simrad echosounder transducers (18, 38, 70, and 120 kHz)
- A-frame and winch with conducting wire (~ 2000 m)
-CTD and water sampling rosette
-Wet lab with running seawater
-Dry lab space with stable power supply within 50 ft of pole mount location
- J-frame/crane and deck space for rigging pole-mount arm and moorings
-Bunk space for 12-14 people (male and female)
Summary of other requirements or comments:
List of Ship, Aircraft and Facility Requests
 YearShipTotal DaysCost EstimateStart Date (optimum)RepeatMulti-shipAreaClearanceStatus
View 2018 Neil Armstrong 23 $986,562 May 19, 2018 Yes No Atlantic OCS No Submitted
View 2018 Neil Armstrong 23 $986,562 Nov 06, 2018 Yes No Atlantic OCS No Submitted
View 2019 Neil Armstrong 23 $986,562 Nov 01, 2019 Yes No Atlantic OCS No Submitted
View 2020 Neil Armstrong 20 $900,760 Nov 01, 2020 Yes No Atlantic OCS No Submitted

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