McLane Moored Profiler

McLane Heads Back to School

Marine biology students at St. John Paul II high school on Cape Cod, MA, saw science in action when McLane engineers visited with an Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB) and other instruments. In the hands-on presentation, the fifty 10th and 11th graders collected a water sample from a local harbor and then watched the IFCB capture images of suspended particles. McLane
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7 best practices for a smooth profiler cruise

Well before your busy profiler deployment, help ensure your cruise goes smoothly by preparing your team and instrument by following these seven best practices. Schedule training. Instrument training at McLane’s facilities is included with purchase. Refresher courses for older instruments can be arranged at our daily rate. Consider training your whole field team as McLane can accommodate small
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Five post-deployment best practices for your instrument

Proper post-deployment equipment maintenance extends the life of your instrument and prepares it for your next cruise. Post-deployment care varies by instrument so refer to the instrument user manual, which can be accessed in our Library.  Some universal best practices include the following: Run the data offload option, confirm that the data was recorded, and
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ESP and MMP deployed on Northwest Enhanced Moored Observatory (NEMO)

A McLane ESP and MMP  have been  deployed at near-real time ocean observatory located 13 miles offshore from the town of La Push, Washington within the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. The mooring site, the Northwest Enhanced Moored Observatory (NEMO), is owned and operated by the University of Washington (UW) and the Northwest Association of Networked
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McLane at Sea on R/V Armstrong

This month, McLane heads to sea on the first cruise leaving Woods Hole on board the R/V Neil Armstrong. GM Jon Mogul and an one of our engineers will join the science party as they travel to the Pioneer Array off the coast of New England. The Pioneer Array is a coastal observatory operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic
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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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Inductive Charging and New Sensors Tested at Sea  

McLane, along with customer and industry partners, recently took McLane Moored Profilers (MMP) into the ocean on the East and West coasts. Two separate collaborative at-sea deployments successfully tested a new profiler inductive charging system and a prototype profiler with new sensor integration, inductive telemetry, and mechanical enhancements. In Seattle, WA, Shilshole Bay was the
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Mclane MMP with Nortek Acoustic Doppler Current Meter

17 December 2012: McLane Research Laboratories, Inc. (Falmouth, MA) is pleased to announce the successful integration and test of a Nortek acoustic Doppler current meter for the Mclane Moored Profiler (MMP), a wire-crawling profiler. In collaboration with NortekUSA, successful tests of the Nortek Aquadopp Profiler mounted to the MMP were expanded in fully integrating the current
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McLane Profilers successful in INRS report

 INRS-Quebec has issued a reliability analysis report on two profilers deployed in the Southern Beaufort Sea as part of the ArcticNet program.  All MMP data was found reliable in 3,670 profiles, one MMP and 3,301 profiles for the other.
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