Gulf Cleanup Dispersants Examined

As crude oil prices spike, the Obama administration has approved the first Gulf of Mexico deep-water drilling permit since last April’s Deepwater Horizon explosion. As reported in our Fall Newsletter, McLane Sediment Traps are among the instruments now helping scientists examine the long-term effects of the Gulf cleanup.  Among current projects, a new deep water plume

WHOI Oceanus Highlights ESP Project

The WHOI magazine Oceanus recently featured a story about how Dr. Don Anderson’s lab is using the new ESP sampler built by McLane to revolutionize the detection and study of harmful algal blooms. During a spring 2011 ESP deployment in the Gulf of Maine, the ESP will continuously monitor the water and detect blooms as

Buoy Surfaces After 10 Years

Amazingly, in April 2011 a WHOI mooring with a McLane steel buoy that was deployed in 2001 suddenly surfaced in the Southern Ocean west of the Antarctic Peninsula. Originally part of a six mooring deployment, the sixth ‘ghost mooring’ failed to respond to the acoustic anchor release and was presumed lost in 2002. Somehow in 2011 the

NIWA Probes Antarctic with ITP

The National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA) is using the ITP to probe ice sheet and ocean conditions in the Antarctic. Scientists are logging a year round data set (the first of its kind) to study ice shelf interaction in McMurdo Sound, a bay off Antarctica that forms the western extension of the
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