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McLane named to 2012 MTR 100

 McLane is pleased to announce it has been named to the 2012 Marine Technology Reporter (MTR) Top 100 list. MTR is the world’s largest audited circulation magazine to cover the marine technology market. Each year the magazine evaluates and ranks marine technology companies worldwide to create the MTR 100 list. In the July/August 2012 Issue
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McLane to build Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB)

McLane will build a new instrument, the Imaging FlowCytobot a sampler developed by WHOI biologists Robert Olson and Heidi Sosik. The FlowCytobot detects, photographs, and collects data on phytoplankton and zooplankton 24 hours a day, up to 6 months at a time. Data is transmitted back to a surface ship or land-based lab. See the
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Team from Norwegian Polar Institute visits McLane for training

Dr. Mats Granskog and Dr. Agneta Fransson, researchers from the Norwegian Polar Institute, visited McLane in June for training on their Remote Access Sampler (RAS). The NPI team will be deploying two samplers in the Arctic off the coast of Greenland deployment in the Fram Strait (79 degrees N) in Aug 2012 to measure freshwater outflow from
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OOI successfully completes equipment test

The Ocean Observatories Initiatives (OOI) announces that it successfully completed a sea equipment test, which included a McLane Moored Profiler (MMP). Click here for video from the recovery cruise.  The OOI Team in September deployed three test moorings at two sites on the continental slope south of Cape Cod. That shelf break is at 39°
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ESP Deployment

 The Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) was recently deployed off of Portsmouth, NH for early season detection of red tide cells. Real-time, in-situ DNA analysis benefits shellfish managers who cannot see what’s happening off of the coast. The 45 day WHOI deployment by Scientist Bruce Keafer and his team began the deployment in May. The ESP continues
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McLane Profilers featured in NBC video

McLane profilers were featured in a NBC educational video presented at the International Polar Year (IPY) 2012 Conference in Montreal.  The conference included a presentation by Rick Krishfield of WHOI on the Ice Tethered Profiler Polar program. Krishfield and the ITP Polar deployments were recently the focus of an NBC video  from the National Earth Science Teachers Association program ‘Windows
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May 16 Stellwagen Program

Wednesday May 16 from 4-7 PM, MOTN, MTS/NE and USGS are hosting a program on current research efforts and technology used at Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. The program, which will be held in Fall River, MA marks 20 years since Stellwagen Sanctuary was established. McLane’s steel flotation has been used in research buoys within
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Dr. Chip Brier at McLane

Many thanks to Dr. Chip Brier from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who gave a talk at McLane on his work on mineral composition of hydrothermal plume particulates. Dr. Brier also spoke about his instrumentation and the challenges of sampling the particulates and water of from vent orifices using ROVs. His work with biologists on the interplay
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March Newsletter

Subscribe to our newsletter, now in electronic format. In the new March issue, see how a McLane Steel buoy surfaced intact after 10 years presumed lost at sea. Also included in this issue are articles about Sediment Trap and WTS-LV deployments and news about a new WTS-LV sampler style and new single page Unpacker software
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Louisiana State Team Visits McLane for Training

Louisiana State University’s Dr. Brent Christner and grad student Amanda Achberger visited McLane in January for training on their Large Volume Water Pump (WTS-LV). The LSU team will be lowering the single event sampler through a bore hole into a glacial lake, some 800m below the Antarctic ice.  The pump will help Dr. Christner’s team
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