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McLane Announces Availability of Imaging FlowCytobot Sampler

(Falmouth, MA) – McLane Research Laboratories, Inc. announces the availability of a new in situ sampler. The Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB) is an automated submersible imaging flow cytometer that generates images of particles in-flow taken from the aquatic environment. Depending on the target population, the IFCB can generate around 10,000 high resolution images per hour. McLane
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MMP in Feb 2013 Sea Technology

An article on McLane’s first article profiler for OOI  authored by McLane’s Michael Mathewson and Cleo Zani is a featured editorial in the February 2013 Sea Technology issue. “Wire–Following Profiler for The Ocean Observatories Initiative: McLane Upgrades Profiler’s Communications and Electronics” highlights changes McLane developed for the commercially produced McLane Moored Profiler (MMP)  to meet specs for the Ocean
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Bore Hole WTS-LV in the field

 The McLane Bore Hole model WTS-LV recently contributed to interdisciplinary field work on the subglacial environment at Subglacial Lake Whillans. The Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling project (WISSARD) used a variety of tools including a Bore Hole WTS-LV to explore Subglacial Lake Whillans and the nearby grounding zone, on the southeastern edge of
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McLane Research Laboratories Delivers First Article OOI Wire Following Profilers

Falmouth, MA – McLane Research Laboratories, Inc. announces the delivery of the first article moored profilers to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Coastal and Global arrays. In September 2011, McLane was awarded the contract for Coastal and Global wire following profilers (WFP) to be used
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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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RAS Performs Day & Night

Coral reef pH and CO2 levels can change drastically from day to night, making collection at both ends of the day important for studying ocean acidification. Night sampling is often difficult from a boat in a shallow coral reef, but the Remote Access Sampler (RAS) provides a solution for WHOI postdoctoral researcher Katie Shamberger, making sampling
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McLane at Oceans 2012 MTS/IEEE

 McLane will have an exhibit at the Oceans 2012 MTS/IEEE Conference (October 14-19) at Hampton Roads, Virginia. Visit us at Booth 1728 and we will be happy to answer any questions you may have about our instruments. In addition, we have updates on McLane and will share our progress building Wire Following Profilers for the
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Fall 2012 Newsletter

Subscribe to our newsletter in electronic format. In the new Fall 2012 issue learn about an upcoming conference in Moscow, Russia, the successful deployment of the Hawaiian Ocean Time Series (HOT) Profiler deployment, CSIRO’s 12 month RAS deployment and McLane’s expansion to a new glass production and testing facility. We publish our electronic newsletter only a few times
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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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Successful deployment of HOT Profiler prototype

The University of Washington Applied Physics Lab successfully deployed the prototype HOT (Hawaiian Ocean Time Series) profiler at the ALOHA Observatory, north of Oahu, in July 2012. This new prototype, developed by McLane and the HOT APL/UW team, is a modified extended MMP (McLane Moored Proflier) which utilizes an inductive power system (IPS) to charge
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