Estuarine Soundscape Observatory Network in the Southeast (ESONS) Raw Audio Data

These are raw audio data from the Estuarine Soundscape Observatory Network in the Southeast (ESONS) funded by NOAA IOOS/SECOORA. Passive acoustic recorders (Loggerhead instruments, Sarasota, FL) in custom built instrument frames (Mooring Systems Inc., Cataumet, MA) were deployed in the May River following methodology found in Monczak et al. 2017 and Monczak et al. 2019. All frames and recorders were painted with antifouling paint and equipped with 7 m of galvanized chain attached to a line. Instrument frames with recorders were then deployed on the bottom of the river. The line was stretched along the bottom and attached to an auger on the shoreline. We scheduled recorders to collect sound data on a duty cycle of 2 min every 20 min or 2 min every hour. Recorders were serviced approximately every 3 months (Montie et al. 2015; Marian et al. 2021).