McLane Prawler Milestone in Puget Sound

(Falmouth, MA) The first McLane manufactured Prawler was deployed in Puget Sound, Seattle, WA, marking a key milestone in McLane’s technology transfer with NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL). McLane and NOAA PMEL engineers were on board the R/V Hayes in late October 2019 to observe the 180m deployment in Shilshole Bay as near real-time Prawler

Employment opportunity: Machinist

We are looking to add an early to mid-career machinist to our on-site machine shop. The ideal candidate will have some experience in set up and operation of conventional, special purpose, numerical control (NC) machines, manual lathes, millers, grinders, drill presses and band saws to fabricate metallic and nonmetallic parts. Applicants with little experience will
McLaneTerm, the terminal emulation program developed by McLane, recently demonstrated the power of its remote connection tool when McLane instruments in  Antarctica successfully connected with McLane engineers in East Falmouth, MA. The remote connection was established from a McMurdo station Long-Term Ecological Research (MCM LTER)  site during preparation for an upcoming deployment under the ice

Shipboard IFCB Enhances Ecosystem Modeling

Shipboard Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB) sampling was successfully conducted onboard the NOAA ship Bell M. Shimada for the 2019 Integrated Ecosystem and Pacific Hake Acoustic-Trawl Survey (the “Summer Survey”). The IFCB was installed to determine whether automated imaging flow cytometry could provide phytoplankton community structure metrics while the ship was underway. These metrics are a key
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