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McLane at OSM 2024 New Orleans 18-23 Feb

Join McLane 18-23 Feb at OSM’24 in New Orleans. Visit Booth 632 and see our innovative technologies! Discuss your science and projects with our team and experience our newest eDNA sampler the Robotic Cartridge Sampling Instrument (RoCSI) and our automated, submersible Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB). On 21 Feb from 12:45 – 1:45 CST don’t miss our
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IFCB enables WHOI’s first real-time detection of unprecedented toxic bloom in warming Alaskan waters

(January 2023) Read how WHOI’s use of the IFCB detected an unprecedented toxic algal bloom in warming Alaskan waters.  Early discovery was key for warning residents not to consume shell fish or marine animals due to toxicity risk.                  
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7 Tips for Sampler Post Deployment Maintenance

Maintaining your sampler from deck to lab is critical for long instrument life. After instrument recovery, a few basic steps can avoid  emergency service before the next deployment: After removing sample bottles, sample bags, or filter holders, rinse sampler with fresh water. Connect the COM cable and offload all data from memory. Open the controller
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Winners Announced! World Ocean Day Giveaway

Congratulations to Chloé Baumas (CNRS-MIO), Vincent Clementi (Rutgers University), and Wen-Hsuan Liao (NIOZ), winners of McLane’s World Ocean Day giveaway! Chloé, Vincent, and Wen-Hsuan and will each receive an EcoBag with a t-shirt, McLane instrument LEGO® brick kit, jigsaw puzzle, stickers and more goodies. Remember, we trade t-shirts for instrument photo posts so tag us
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New SABL Sediment Trap World Premiere at OI London

The NEW Signal Activated Bottom Lander (SABL) Sediment Trap is now available for customers! SABL is ready for our World Premiere at OI’22 London 15-17 March in Stand A525. The newest addition to our flagship Sediment Trap product line, SABL is a low-profile sediment sampler ideal for for studies in stormwater discharge, dredging, sediment disturbance
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In Situ Pumps vs Collection Bottles: Study on Marine Particle-Attached Microbes Finds Pump Samples More Diverse

Large volume sampling by in situ pumps appears to recover a more broad community of particle-attached microbes than traditional bottle sampling, according to a unique study published in Frontiers in Microbiology. During an East Antarctica deployment aboard the R/V Aurora Australia, both an in situ pump and 12L Niskin bottles collected samples from the same location
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World Ocean Day Giveaway – Enter to Win

June 8 is World Ocean Day and McLane is spreading some ocean cheer. Enter to win! Three lucky people will be randomly chosen from entries received. Winners will get an EcoBag with a t-shirt, McLane instrument LEGO® brick kit, jigsaw puzzle, stickers and more goodies. Have LEGO® Bricks and a creative flair? Build your own
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Back in the Booth! McLane at OI’22 London 15-17 March Stand A525

McLane is excited to greet our customers in Stand A525 March 15-17 at Oceanology International, London. Contact us to get a hands-on look at the Prawler and a chance to win new LEGO® Brick themed kits. Also learn the latest sampler, profiler and flotation updates, including an introduction to the NEW, NOW AVAILABLE, Signal Activated Bottom Lander (SABL) Sediment
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MBARI Using Real-time IFCB Data to Forsee Imminent HABS Events

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) recently updated their Wave-Energy Buoy with a new Imaging Flowcytobot (IFCB). The IFCB is expected to dramatically improve water-quality managers’ ability to predict when  harmful algal blooms (HABs) events are imminent. This IFCB is part of an instrument network deployed from California piers and offshore moorings to capture hourly
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McLane Samplers in Ocean Networks Canada Cabled Observatory

A recent Oceanography feature article, “New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration” highlights an expedition to maintain, upgrade and expand over 24 instruments at Ocean Networks Canada’s (ONC) offshore cabled observatory. Several McLane samplers were among the instruments maintained by the E/V Nautilus team during the 14-day expedition. The samplers’ ongoing deployments are part of key experiments
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