RAS and Added Sensors in RAPID Array

McLane Remote Access Samplers (RAS) are now part of the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)-funded Rapid Climate Change Programme (RAPID) moorings, with RAS frames added to moorings placed offshore of Africa, the Bahamas and at the mid-Atlantic ridge. The Atlantic Biogeochemical (ABC) Fluxes project – led by scientists from National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOCS) – customized the RAS frames to hold additional
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WTS-LV Deployed by ROV

A WTS-LV was deployed using the ROV Hercules in a recent Northern Gulf of Mexico deployment from the E/V Nautilus. The WTS-LV collected microbes from the water column at depths ranging from 400-600m, to help determine how natural hydrocarbon seepage impacts deep-water coral communities. The coral research is being conducted by the Ecosystem Impacts of
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Sediment Traps in Fukushima Study

The American Chemical Society's Journal, Environmental Science and Technology has published results of a three-year time-series study that used McLane Sediment Traps. The time-series samplers collected sediment buried in the seafloor off of coastal Japan following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. Ken Buesseler of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), led the study which along with other WHOI scientists included Makio Honda and Hajime Kawakami
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APL Tests OOI Profiler Enhancements

As part of NSF’s Ocean Observing Initiative, the University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Seattle, WA recently tested Profiler enhancements with McLane Software Engineer Cleo Zani on-site. The team exercised new adaptive profiling commands. Adaptive commands are transmitted between the MMP, an inductive communication and battery charging docking station at
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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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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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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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Microbial Ecosystems Explored in Antarctica Half-Mile Below the Ice

Scientists from the NSF-funded Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project which includes a McLane WTS-LV Bore-Hole configured sampler, have published a paper in the journal Nature about a viable microbial ecosystem found beneath a half-mile of ice in Antarctica. Venturing to this previously unexplored part of our biosphere has provided a glimpse
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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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Louisiana State Team Visits McLane for Training

Louisiana State University’s Dr. Brent Christner and grad student Amanda Achberger visited McLane in January for training on their Large Volume Water Pump (WTS-LV). The LSU team will be lowering the single event sampler through a bore hole into a glacial lake, some 800m below the Antarctic ice.  The pump will help Dr. Christner’s team
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