6 Tips to Resolve Instrument Communication Problems

Here are 6 ways to troubleshoot an instrument communication problem: Check for incorrect MotoCross communication settings. Restart MotoCross. Ensure that batteries are not dead, unplugged, or installed incorrectly. Inspect USB adapters and confirm that drivers are installed. Verify that MotoCross is not transmitting control characters. Establish that the electrical connection is functioning. Customer toolkits will
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Rarely Documented Fish are Collected by Sediment Traps in Israel’s First Permanent Mooring Station

McLane sediment traps in Israel’s first permanent Deep Sea Research Station (DeepLev), have been instrumental in collecting an uncommon species of fish. Sediment traps along the station’s cable filled with fish called “sharpchin barracudina” which have rarely been documented in the waters near Israel and whose adult fish have never been reported in scientific literature.
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SEA Students Tour McLane

SEA Education Association (SEA), recently visited McLane for a presentation and tour while in Woods Hole mobilizing for their upcoming cruise. The McLane Large Volume Water Transfer System (WTS-LV) is among the oceanographic samplers students learn to deploy during the SEA Semester. Sea Education Association (SEA) is an internationally recognized leader in undergraduate ocean education. Students and staff attended
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IFCB in September issue of ECO

The Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB) is featured in September’s ECO Magazine. An IFCB deployment at Ward Aquafarms, a Cape Cod based business that farms oysters, quahogs, scallops and kelp is highlighted in the feature story. Within an hour of installation at the aquaculture farm, C. polykrikoides cells were imaged in great abundance. “If IFCB wasn’t deployed”, commented Ward Aquafarms owner
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RAS Deployment Video in Lake Huron

See video  of the Reavie Lab from the University of Minnesota, Duluth (UMD) deploying a McLane Remote Access Sampler (RAS) in Lake Huron.  The Reavie team pursues research in applied aquatic studies on freshwater ecosystems, evaluating water quality issues. Routine work focuses on the use of algae as indicators of environmental changes. The RAS Lake Huron
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McLane named to the 2017 MTR 100 list

McLane is honored to announce it has been named to the 2017 Marine Technology Reporter (MTR) Top 100 list. We extend our sincere appreciation to the editors and staff at Marine Technology Reporter for this honor. McLane was previously named to the MTR 100 in 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2016. MTR is the world’s largest audited circulation magazine
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Watch Video of the First ESP Deployed in the Great Lakes

See a new University of Michigan News video featuring the first Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) deployed in the Great Lakes. ‘ESPniagara’ is now deployed in the Western Lake Erie basin to provide rapid, advanced warning to municipal drinking water managers and to safeguard the drinking water supplies from toxic microcystins. ESPniagara is the first ESP
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Product Profile: Phytoplankton Sampler (PPS)

McLane’s Phytoplankton sampler (PPS) is a time-series, in-situ instrument that collects 24 individual, filtered particulate samples. The PPS is suited for analyzing trace metals, phytoplankton, zooplankton and micro-plastics. A multi-port valve keeps samples separate, and pumps water directly onto a 47 mm filter. The PPS is deployed on a fixed mooring. Deployments can be up to
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Cape Cod Times article on McLane’s Global Footprint

 May 14, 2017 The Cape Cod Times has published an article on McLane’s exports of its profilers, samplers, and flotation around the world.  Recently, the Small Business Administration (SBA) had selected McLane Research Laboratories, Inc. as 2017 Exporter of the Year for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.  The article included a video of a McLane Moored Profiler descending our 50 ft
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India’s First Sediment Trap-Based Flux Studies in Southern Ocean

In order to understand the response of the Southern Ocean as a carbon sink and its response to changing global climate conditions, a long-term flux study called “Southern Ocean Carbon Processes-SOCarP” was conceived at the National Centre For Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR), India, using moored sediment traps. In early 2017, the SOCarP team left
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