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Training for your Deployment

Instrument training, tours and product demos have been active this spring with customers from as far away as New Zealand. At our recent Open House, our engineers hosted domestic and international customers with product demonstrations, deployment discussions, and a tour of our facilities. Learn more about our samplers, profilers, and flotation with a visit to McLane.
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McLane Sponsorship: Ethan Edson

McLane had the privilege of sponsoring Ethan Edson, a 2015 Northeastern University marine and environmental science graduate, to attend Oceans’15 in Washington, D.C. Ethan presented the paper “MANTARAY: A Novel Autonomous Sampling Instrument for In-situ Measurements of Environmental Microplastic Particle Concentrations” detailing his prototype instrument that gathers and categorizes microplastistics in situ. Now that MantaRay
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Vortice Lda. Portugal Trains at McLane

Carlos Lopes Teixeira our new sales representative from Vortice Lda. of Portugal has completed product training at McLane. McLane Engineers provided hands-on demonstrations of samplers and profilers and an overview of our flotation products. Vortice is now Portugal’s exclusive distributor of McLane products. Founded in 1981, Vortice has extensive experience in oceanography and meteorology. McLane has sales representatives in the
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McLane named again to MTR 100

McLane is pleased to announce it has been named to the 2015 Marine Technology Reporter (MTR) Top 100 list. MTR is the world’s largest audited circulation magazine to cover the marine technology market. For ten years, the magazine has been evaluating and ranking marine technology companies worldwide to create the MTR 100 list. In the
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New WTS-LVDF Samplers in Vent Study

In 2015, a hydrothermal vent sampling cruise will deploy the first McLane-manufactured WTS-LV dual filter samplers. Following a technology transfer from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), McLane will deliver WTS-LVDF samplers with newly designed dual vertical intake filter holders to Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia (CSIRO) for a 2015 cruise in the Southern
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Where is Waldo?

McLane has delivered an Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). MBARI staff nick-named the ESP “Waldo” after the popular “Where is Waldo” book series. The ESP provides in situ collection and analysis of water samples from the subsurface ocean. The instrument is an electromechanical fluidics system designed to collect
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McLane at Oceans ’14 September 14-18

September 14-18, McLane General Manager Jon Mogul will be at Oceans ’14 MTS/IEE, St. John’s, Canada. Come to Booth 39 at the St. John’s Convention Centre in Newfoundland and learn about our newly designed WTS-LV Dual Filter sampler or recent profiler and sampler developments. A modular flotation hardhat and sample of the new 142mm vertical intake filter holder will also be on-hand. Contact
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McLane at JASM: May 19-23, Portland, OR

The Director of Special Projects, Ivory Engstrom, will be attending the Joint Aquatic sciences meeting on 18-23 May at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon. The McLane Booth (E-27) will feature the Spyglass ESP and IFCB, but we will be happy to respond to your questions, training and scientific needs on our entire product
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Spring Training at McLane

Dr. Mindy Richlen and her team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) visited McLane in March to prepare their Phytoplankton Sampler (PPS) for deployment. The one day training at our McLane facility consisted of programming a deployment, general operations and maintenance procedures. If you own a McLane sampler or profiler, consider adding product training at our
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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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