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McLane Hosts our Spain Sales Reps

McLane was happy to host our sales representatives from Madrid, Spain, when Francisco and Susana Mier of Grafinta S.A. stopped by our office during a recent business trip. McLane welcomes the chance to have visitors at our Falmouth office so please contact us if you plan to be in the area!
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NIU Gets Hands-On ITP Training

Stefan Vogel, a research associate in the Dept. of Geology and Environmental Geosciences at Northern Illinois University (NIU) visited McLane in July for profiler training. NIU recently purchased an Ice Tethered Profiler integrated with a Teledyne RDI Doppler Velocity Sensor (DVS). NIU will deploy the ITP this Fall in Lake Tahoe. Plans for deployment in
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McLane products in the field

McLane products have been deployed in oceans around the world– see our new Google Map.  Our profiler, sampler and mooring product markers show deployments around the world.  Scroll over some of the markers, further information (such as related papers, links and photos) are shown on the tag.  These are just a selection of McLane instrument
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First McLane-Built Environmental Sample Processor

McLane has launched the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP), a revolutionary autonomous biogenomic sensor. Working with our partners at Monterey Bay Research Institute and Spyglass Biosecurity, McLane’s first ESP was shipped to Don Anderson at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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New McLane Website Launched

McLane is pleased to announce the release of its new website.  With an updated look, new information, and navigation, the new site aims to better serve and support the oceanography community.  Please explore the site and update your bookmarks.
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McLane meets with Secretary Bialecki at WHOI

On June 29, 2010 McLane and three other oceanographic companies were invited to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to discuss emerging business opportunities in marine technology with Gregory Bialecki, Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development. The WHOI visit was organized so that Secretary Bialecki could learn about coastal and global-scale ocean observatories, and their
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University of Hawaii Visits McLane for Training

Researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa ventured 6,000 miles to McLane for pre-deployment profiler training in June. Doug Luther, a physical oceanographer, will use extended McLane Moored Profilers to research the structure of the tides and eddies around the island of Oahu, Hawaii. The extended MMP was chosen for this project for its
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Adaptive Sampling RAS Tracks Plume Events

Scientists from the University of Wisconsin deployed a McLane RAS-500 with adaptive sampling to study bacterial loading in the Great Lakes area. The buoy based system collected samples using activity triggered, time-series sampling. Significant patterns of contamination events were linked to heavy rainfall. The UW team wrote an application program interface (API) triggering the automatic start of
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McLane Samplers in NEPTUNE

McLane is excited to be part of the North-East Pacific Time-Series Undersea Networked Experiments (NEPTUNE) observatory. NEPTUNE Canada, a partnership of 12 Universities, is the world’s first multi-node regional cabled seafloor observatory. Five subsea nodes with several hundred instruments including McLane Samplers will be deployed by NEPTUNE Canada this year. Dalhousie University, a NEPTUNE consortium member, will
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MMP in PBS Documentary

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientist Ruth Curry is featured in two televised PBS NOW investigations discussing the impact of global climate change on the oceans. The documentary “Sea Change” features Curry explaining an MMP and shows WHOI scientists deploying an MMP off the RV Oceanus. Some video of McLane flotation is also included. The video
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