MATOS - Mid-Atlantic Acoustic Telemetry Observation System

Project Title: NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office-Virginia Marine Resource Commission Chesapeake Bay Backbone Southern Acoustic Array

MATOS Project Code: CBBBS

Data Type: Deployment

Project Duration: June 2021 - December 2025

Project Description: This project maintains a line of receivers immediately adjacent to the Chesapeake Bay Bridget Tunnel near the mouth of the Chesapeake. It's part of a broader partnership between the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office, Virginia Marine Resources Commission, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, to maintain a series of "backbone" receiver arrays at key points in the Chesapeake Bay. The goal is to maintain array gates across wide sections of the bay over the long-term and deliver consistent detection data that other researchers can readily access. The intent is to work with willing researchers from states agencies and academia to answer questions about how fish utilize the Chesapeake spatially and temporally.

Principal Investigator:	Wilmelie Cruz-Marrero (NCBO)
Email:	wilmelie.cruz@noaa.gov

Point of Contact:	Wilmelie Cruz-Marrero
Email:	wilmelie.cruz@noaa.gov

Collaborators:

Ethan Simpson (VMRC)

Participating Organizations:

Virginia Marine Resources Commission
NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office

Funding:

Virginia Marine Resources Commission
NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office

NCBO-VMRC Chesapeake Backbone South