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McLane Awarded Contract

(Washington, D.C.) – The Consortium for Ocean Leadership  (OL) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) announced McLane Research Laboratories, of East Falmouth, Mass., will provide the Wire Following Profiler for the Coastal and Global Scale Nodes (CGSN) component of the OOI (Ocean Observatories Initiative) program. Read complete article.
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WHOI, MA Governor Award McLane

Recently, McLane was in the spotlight as we celebrated past achievements and current business successes. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) President and Director Dr. Susan Avery presented McLane with an award for 25 years of service to science at our Anniversary Open House in May. The WHOI tribute praises “lasting contributions to the quest for
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Tests Use In-Situ Lab

A September C-MORE BioLINCS cruise off the coast of Oahu tested samplers that have real-time, in-situ microbial analysis capabilities. The project used the ESP and other samplers to conduct analysis at sea that traditionally relies on a return to the laboratory. The IPS and TS-SID, prototypes from a joint McLane project with Dr. Craig Taylor of
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Profiler Expands from Arctic Ice to Lake Explorations

Ice Tethered Profilers (ITPs) are no longer confined to the Arctic. Designed with shallow ice floes as the deployment target, the ITP is proving that it can meet the sampling challenges of lake environments. The “Lake Moored Profiler” (LMP) has now been deployed in Flathead Lake, Montana and Crater Lake, Oregon. The Crater Lake National Park Service project
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Adaptive Sampling Available on McLane Instruments

Changing schedules or triggering samples in mid-deployment is now possible with new adaptive sampling options available for McLane Profilers and Samplers. Adaptive profiling uses inductive telemetry and a surface package to communicate with profiler firmware during the deployment The user can then program a new schedule which is transferred to the profiler during the next inductive
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Oahu Cruise Brings Lab to Sea

The advantage of samplers that perform in-situ, real-time laboratory analysis is evidenced in a C-MORE BioLINCS marine microbe study North of Oahu. The deployment features the ESP and other instruments that conduct studies in the field which often depend upon a return to sophisticated laboratory environments. Read more about this fascinating September deployment at the
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New MMP Sensor Integration

McLane Moored Profiler (MMP) sensor options now include the Nortek AquaDopp HR and Satlantic SUNA sensors. Also, the Seabird Inductive Modem (IMM) communication protocol has been fully implemented as an option to inductively transfer files. The AquaDopp collects Doppler acoustic current measurements, and the SUNA is a nitrate sensor. For a full up-to-date list of
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NEPTUNE Cruise

Canada’s R/V Thomas G. Thompson recently set sail on a cruise to maintain, recover, and deploy more instruments at the NEPTUNE seafloor observatory. NEPTUNE is the world’s first multi-node regional cabled seafloor observatory, and McLane Sediment Traps and RAS samplers were deployed in 2009 for Phase One of this 25 year project. Daily cruise updates, cruise
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Deployment Video: MMP in China

In this video, the Third Institute of Oceanography (Xiamen, China) deployed a McLane Moored Profiler (MMP) in Sept 2010 for 80 days off the coast of China. After a successful deployment and recovery, the China team collected 3000 profiles, with the instrument traveling in the range of 800 thousand meters. Also in China, scientists from the
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MMP training at McLane

A team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Raytheon Company came to McLane for profiler training in June. The one day training consisted of bench testing, programming a deployment, and recovering the McLane Moored Profiler from the 15 meter test tank in McLane’s lab. If you own a McLane profiler or sampler or are thinking
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