International Guests Train at McLane

Customers from Germany, China and Norway recently completed instrument training at McLane facilities with our 15m test tank. Profiler and sampler training included mechanical, electronic and deployment programming components, and recovery/data offload procedures. If you own a McLane profiler or sampler or are thinking of purchasing from our product line, hands-on product
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New pressure relief valve option

McLane now offers a pressure relief valve (PRV) upgrade to retrofit to all sampler controller housings for $400.00 (including installation by McLane but excluding shipping and insurance costs). The controller end-cap and anodizing must be in suitable condition for PRV retrofits. The anodized aluminum controller housing contains alkaline battery packs (which are not manufactured by
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McLane at Sea

This month, McLane is headed to sea. General Manager Jon Mogul is on board the R/V Atlantis as it cruises out of Woods Hole to the Pioneer Array off the coast of New England. Also headed to sea is McLane Engineer Tom Fougere who will join researchers on the R/V Connecticut out of Woods Hole.
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April 2015 Newsletter

In the April 2015 Newsletter learn about our live demonstration of an Imaging FlowCtyobot (IFCB) at Ocean Business '15, Sediment Traps in an Iron Fertilization Study, Microbial Populations Studied with the ESP, WTS-LV Training, and Preparing Glass for Summer Deployments. Subscribe to our newsletter in electronic format. We publish our electronic newsletter only a few
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McLane IFCB Sales

McLane Research Laboratories has reached a milestone with the sale of an Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB) to Michigan based company PhycoTech. While McLane has been selling the IFCB to academic institutions since 2013, the sale to PhycoTech marks the first to a commercial entity. PhycoTech, an environmental consulting company located in St Joseph, MI specializes in
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McLane at Ocean Business UK

14-16 April 2015, McLane will be in Southampton, UK. Director of Special Projects Ivory Engstrom will be attending Ocean Business 2015. McLane will have a demonstration IFCB unit with a continuous stream of live images from local water, in addition to information on the company’s full line of samplers, profilers, and flotation. Contact us for
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WTSLV-DF Samplers to Collect Data in Southern Ocean

Following a technology transfer from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), McLane has delivered WTS-LVDF samplers with newly designed dual vertical intake filter holders to Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia (CSIRO) for a cruise in the Southern Ocean. The WTSLV-DF uses a new WTS-LV frame design, upright WTS-LV controller housing, and other deployment-proven WTS-LV
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New WTS-LVDF Samplers in Vent Study

In 2015, a hydrothermal vent sampling cruise will deploy the first McLane-manufactured WTS-LV dual filter samplers. Following a technology transfer from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), McLane will deliver WTS-LVDF samplers with newly designed dual vertical intake filter holders to Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia (CSIRO) for a 2015 cruise in the Southern
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A Decade of Work for ITPs

For nearly a decade, Ice Tethered Profilers (ITP) have been deployed to observe the physics and biology of the changing Actic environment ranging from ice floes to regional lakes providing observations covering a large region of the Arctic Ocean. More recently, in the summer of 2012, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) scientists took
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McLane at ASLO Granada

22-27 February 2015, McLane will be in Granada, Spain. Director of Special Projects Ivory Engstrom, as well as our EU sales representatives, will be attending the 2015 Aquatic Sciences Meeting. Contact us for more details, and visit us at Booth 24. We will be happy to answer your questions as well as share updates on
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