MMP in Action

MMP in Action

The McLane Moored Profiler begins a deployment with a CTD and current meter installed.

Among the Ice

Among the Ice

ADCP attached to a McLane 30 inch steel buoy, Beaufort Sea, Alaska where the extreme ice conditions are no match for the robust steel buoy design.

ITP in the Arctic

ITP in the Arctic

Researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution prepare to deploy an ITP through a 28 cm hole in the Arctic ice. 

WTS-LV at Sea

WTS-LV at Sea

U-Minn, Duluth recovers a WTS-LV in Lake Malawi, East Africa where Crenarchaeota studies are building a new perspective on environmental evolution.

All Hands on Deck

All Hands on Deck

Hobart and Wm Smith researchers recover and redeploy Sediment Traps and McLane flotation on a rotating basis in Lake Seneca, NY.

News

January 9, 2012

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 explore the eco-system in lakes that exist deep under layers of Antarctic ice. Read more »

January 6, 2012

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 mooring surfaced with enough battery power to turn on and broadcast its location. Read more »

Tools for Success

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The downloadable McLane Library content includes step-by-step User Manuals, Technical Support Bulletins, Software, Videos, Photos, and Data sheets. This in-depth information can be used to aid instrument selection. For those who already own instruments, the library is a resource for deployment preparation, recovery, and instrument storage.