MATOS - Mid-Atlantic Acoustic Telemetry Observation System

Project Title: NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office-Maryland Department of Natural Resources Chesapeake Bay Backbone Northern Array

MATOS Project Code: CBBBN

Data Type: Deployment

Project Duration: November 2021 - December 2025

Project Description: NCBO and MD DNR partner to deploy four acoustic release receivers across the span of the Chesapeake adjacent to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge between Annapolis and Kent Island. 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 (NOAA NCBO)
Email:	wilmelie.cruz@noaa.gov

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

Collaborators:

Chuck Stence (Maryland DNR)

Participating Organizations:

Maryland Department of Natural Resources
NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office-NMFS

Funding:

Maryland Department of Natural Resources
NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office

NCBO-MD DNR Chesapeake Backbone North