OOI successfully completes equipment test

The Ocean Observatories Initiatives (OOI) announces that it successfully completed a sea equipment test, which included a McLane Moored Profiler (MMP). Click here for video from the recovery cruise.  The OOI Team in September deployed three test moorings at two sites on the continental slope south of Cape Cod. That shelf break is at 39°
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ESP Deployment

 The Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) was recently deployed off of Portsmouth, NH for early season detection of red tide cells. Real-time, in-situ DNA analysis benefits shellfish managers who cannot see what’s happening off of the coast. The 45 day WHOI deployment by Scientist Bruce Keafer and his team began the deployment in May. The ESP continues
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McLane Profilers featured in NBC video

McLane profilers were featured in a NBC educational video presented at the International Polar Year (IPY) 2012 Conference in Montreal.  The conference included a presentation by Rick Krishfield of WHOI on the Ice Tethered Profiler Polar program. Krishfield and the ITP Polar deployments were recently the focus of an NBC video  from the National Earth Science Teachers Association program ‘Windows
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May 16 Stellwagen Program

Wednesday May 16 from 4-7 PM, MOTN, MTS/NE and USGS are hosting a program on current research efforts and technology used at Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. The program, which will be held in Fall River, MA marks 20 years since Stellwagen Sanctuary was established. McLane’s steel flotation has been used in research buoys within
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Dr. Chip Brier at McLane

Many thanks to Dr. Chip Brier from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who gave a talk at McLane on his work on mineral composition of hydrothermal plume particulates. Dr. Brier also spoke about his instrumentation and the challenges of sampling the particulates and water of from vent orifices using ROVs. His work with biologists on the interplay
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McLane at Oceanology International in London (13-15 March)

Kelso Riddell, McLane’s representative in the United Kingdom, will be attending Oceanology International in ExCel London (13-15 March). He will be sharing booth I155 with Innovatum and showcasing McLane profilers, samplers, and flotation. Stop by to learn more about some of our latest developments such as the Bore Hole LV pump or the Environmental Sample
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March Newsletter

Subscribe to our newsletter, now in electronic format. In the new March issue, see how a McLane Steel buoy surfaced intact after 10 years presumed lost at sea. Also included in this issue are articles about Sediment Trap and WTS-LV deployments and news about a new WTS-LV sampler style and new single page Unpacker software
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Delegation from China visits McLane

29 Feb 2012: McLane was honored by a visit from a delegation from Qingdao, China. This group of five men and women were comprised of professors and staff from the Engineering and Physical Oceanography department of Ocean University. The group was hosted and organized by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. After lunch and a discussion with
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WTS-LV and Metalloenzyme Studies

Seven WTS-LV samplers were deployed recently by WHOI collaborators Dr. Mak Saito and Dr. Phoebe Lam. The cruise, which took place in the Equatorial Pacific between Hawaii and Samoa, was sampling metalloenzymes, which are key catalysts in global biogeochemical cycling. McLane pumps have proven important to metal and protein sample collection and are used by
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ONR/MTS Buoy Workshop (March 5-8, Victoria, BC)

McLane will have a display at the 9th annual Office of Naval Research / Marine Technology Society Buoy Workshop (March 5 to 8, 2012) in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.  This meeting will focus on the rapidly expanding technology of oceanographic and other data buoy components and systems. Come visit GM Mike Mathewson at our display: he
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