Note to our customers: Not Business as Usual, but Available as Always

While the COVID-19 outbreak has delayed research cruises and temporarily emptied labs, science doesn’t stop. Rest assured during this time of great uncertainty, as always you can rely on our commitment to you and your instruments. McLane is still working remotely to keep our staff safe and follow the guidelines of health and government officials. Though
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7 Tips for Fieldwork Prep from Home

On-line access to many instrument resources is available if you’re working remotely, planning a proposal, or troubleshooting an instrument. Some helpful tips: Download McLaneTerm terminal emulation. McLaneTerm can connect a McLane engineer with your instrument if technical support is needed. A detailed User Manual is also available. See the article McLaneTerm for your Sampler or Profiler, Email us with technical
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Employment opportunity: Software engineer / system technician

McLane Research Labs is hiring an early to mid-career software engineer / system technician. This is a unique position that requires a unique applicant who is enthusiastic about bridging the gap between the programming, electronic, and mechanical aspects of our systems. Working in a tight knit group of engineers and technicians, this position requires excellent
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MMP/ITP Firmware Fix

February 27, 2020 – An MMP/ITP firmware fix has been released for the MMP/ITP RTC Clock Rollover bug. All MMP/ITP customers have been sent the firmware v5.40 link via email. Download MMP/ITP v5.40 Release Note for firmware details, or  contact McLane with questions.
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McLane Prawler Milestone in Puget Sound

(Falmouth, MA) The first McLane manufactured Prawler was deployed in Puget Sound, Seattle, WA, marking a key milestone in McLane’s technology transfer with NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL). McLane and NOAA PMEL engineers were on board the R/V Hayes in late October 2019 to observe the 180m deployment in Shilshole Bay as near real-time Prawler
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Employment opportunity: Machinist

We are looking to add an early to mid-career machinist to our on-site machine shop. The ideal candidate will have some experience in set up and operation of conventional, special purpose, numerical control (NC) machines, manual lathes, millers, grinders, drill presses and band saws to fabricate metallic and nonmetallic parts. Applicants with little experience will
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McLaneTerm Connects Instruments from Antarctica

McLaneTerm, the terminal emulation program developed by McLane, recently demonstrated the power of its remote connection tool when McLane instruments in  Antarctica successfully connected with McLane engineers in East Falmouth, MA. The remote connection was established from a McMurdo station Long-Term Ecological Research (MCM LTER)  site during preparation for an upcoming deployment under the ice
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Shipboard IFCB Enhances Ecosystem Modeling

Shipboard Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB) sampling was successfully conducted onboard the NOAA ship Bell M. Shimada for the 2019 Integrated Ecosystem and Pacific Hake Acoustic-Trawl Survey (the “Summer Survey”). The IFCB was installed to determine whether automated imaging flow cytometry could provide phytoplankton community structure metrics while the ship was underway. These metrics are a key
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Prawler in the Field

Experience Prawler data on-line from moorings in NASA deployments during 2012/2013 and 2016/2017  in the Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study (SPURS) deployments. The Prawler was the primary instrument on these deployments collecting data to examine the salinity balance in the upper ocean. Prawler data is well-established: critical data collected by this innovative
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Dual deployment of IFCB and Prototype “Short Puck” ESP in Maine

(Falmouth, MA) – In collaboration with McLane Research Laboratories, the Anderson Lab of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the Roesler Lab in the Department of Earth and Oceanographic Science at Bowdoin College,  have simultaneously deployed a McLane Environmental Sample Processor  (ESP) and an Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB) side by side in the flowing seawater laboratory at the Bowdoin College Schiller Coastal Studies Center on Orr’s
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