McLane Research Laboratories, Inc.

Current News from MRL
Last update: May 15, 2008

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February 28, 2008 - Newsletter, Winter 2008
The Winter 2008 Newsletter (PDF - 852 KB) has been published and mailed to all McLane customers. If you didn't receive a printed newsletter in the mail, please contact us and we will add you to the list for the next newsletter.

October 14, 2007 - Revised ITP Manual
A revised ITP Manual (PDF - 5.2 MB) has been released.

May 24, 2007 - Newsletter, Spring 2007
The Spring 2007 Newsletter (PDF - 410 KB) has been published and mailed to all McLane customers. If you didn't receive a printed newsletter in the mail, please contact us and we will add you to the list for the next newsletter.

April 18, 2007 - JOB OPENING - Software/Ocean Engineer
McLane Research Laboratories Inc is accepting applications for an embedded software engineer. Please submit resume and cover letter via email or snailmail to the attention of the Human Resources Manager at McLane.

March 14, 2007 - Revised RAS-100 Manual
A revised RAS-100 Manual (PDF - 2.1 MB) has been released.

December 11, 2006 - Revised MMP and ZPS Manual
A revised MMP Manual (PDF - 7.2 MB) and ZPS Manual (PDF - 1.7 MB) have been released.

September 14, 2006 - Newsletter, Summer 2006
The Summer 2006 Newsletter (PDF - 260 KB) has been published and mailed to all McLane customers. If you didn't receive a printed newsletter in the mail, please contact us and we will add you to the list for the next newsletter.

March 15, 2006 - Newsletter, Winter 2006
The Winter 2006 Newsletter (PDF - 190 KB) has been published and mailed to all McLane customers. If you didn't receive a printed newsletter in the mail, please contact us and we will add you to the list for the next newsletter.

January 24, 2006 - Revised Sediment Trap Manual
A revised Sediment Trap Manual (PDF - 2.8 MB) has been released that includes the new Mark 8 version of the PARFLUX Sediment Trap.

September 1, 2005 - MMP Unpacker Version 2.0 Released
The MMP Unpacker Version 2.0 (ZIP - 200 KB) has been released. This unpacker will decode MMP data files from firmware version 3.01 and higher.

August 15, 2005 - Newsletter, Summer 2005
The Summer 2005 Newsletter (PDF - 420 KB) has been published and mailed to all McLane customers. If you didn't receive a printed newsletter in the mail, please contact us and we will add you to the list for the next newsletter. Win an iPod Shuffle!

May 15, 2005 - Revised Phytoplankton Sampler Manual
A revised Phytoplankton Samper Manual (PDF - 1.3 MB) has been released.

February 15, 2005 - Sea Technology cover features McLane samplers

January 4, 2005 - Revised Sediment Trap Manual
A revised Sediment Trap Manual (PDF - 1.4 MB) has been released.

October 4, 2004 - Revised WTS-LV Manual
A revised WTS-LV Manual (PDF - 1.5 MB) has been released.

September 10, 2004 - Newsletter, Fall 2004
The Fall 2004 Newsletter (PDF - 480 KB) has been published and mailed to all McLane customers. If you didn't receive a printed newsletter in the mail, please contact us and we will add you to the list for the next newsletter.

June 21, 2004 - Revised RAS 500 Manual
A revised RAS-500 Manual (PDF - 1.4 MB) has been released.

March 1, 2004 - Newsletter, Winter 2004
The Winter 2004 Newsletter (PDF - 350 KB) has been published and mailed to all McLane customers. If you didn't receive a printed newsletter in the mail, please contact us and we will add you to the list for the next newsletter.

February 17, 2004 - Revised MMP Manual
A revised MMP Manual (PDF - 2.6 MB) has been released.

December 25, 2003 - Holiday Decorations
Eric Tappa from the University of South Carolina sent us a holiday photo of a sediment trap cone.

September 26, 2003 - Oceans 2003 Conference
McLane Research Laboratories Inc attended the Oceans 2003 conference in San Diego, CA this month. A paper detailing the performance of the WTS-LV was presented by Don W. Pfitsch.

September 15, 2003 - Jobs OPEN - Electrical/Ocean Engineer and Mechanical/Production Engineer
McLane Research Laboratories Inc is accepting applications for two engineer positions. Please submit resume and cover letter via email or snailmail to the attention of the Human Resources Manager at McLane.

November 7, 2002 - JPAC News: R/V Mirai Cruise Highly Successful
The October 2002 cruise aboard the R/V Mirai was a great success! A significant number of McLane instruments were recovered and redeployed by the JPAC science party, which included Don (Woody) Pfitsch an engineer at McLane Research Laboratories. The full cruise report, including photos and scientific objectives, can be found on the JPAC Cruise 2002 website.

May 10, 2002 - The MMP Goes to London!
A McLane Moored Profiler is currently featured in Climate Change: The burning issue, a new exhibit at the Science Museum, London.

November 2, 2001 - MMP News
Congratulations to Mr. Hirofumi Yamamoto of JAMSTEC. Mr. Yamamoto received the very first production model MMP. He deployed that system on May 22, 2001 and recovered it in October 2001. The profiler was programmed to conduct up/down profile pairs every 6 hours between 500 meters and 1500 meters depth. The MMP completed 1008 profiles before shutting down gracefully with an exhausted battery pack on September 26, 2001 to await recovery. That's 1 million meters of travel over 4 months. Congratulations to Mr. Hirofumi Yamamoto and JAMSTEC on a successful deployment!
June 2001 - Electronics Upgrade
McLANE Research Labs has completed the design of new electronics boards for ALL of our systems. All systems are now shipping with the new boards. We undertook the change to upgrade the capabilities of our systems, to correct known problems (see below), and to take advantage of the new, more reliable bus connector of the Tattletale 8 Version 2 (TT8-V2), a product of Onset Computer, Pocassett, MA, USA. Contact us for more information about the changes.
October 2001 - MMP Deployments
More than a dozen production units of the McLane Moored Profiler (MMP) have shipped. More than half of those are currently deployed in (or have already been recovered from) the Atlantic, Carribbean, North Pacific, and Arctic Oceans. A dozen more McLane Profilers are on order and in production. A fluorometer equipped system, the first profiler with an extended instrument suite (the CTD and current meter are standard), will ship this month.
October 2001 - McLane Conference Papers
Five papers describing McLane instruments, including three about the Moored Profiler, have been published and are available for download. The three papers from OCEANS 2000 provide overviews, with illustrations, of the instruments and their capabilities. The Oceanology paper provides a detailed description of the Moored Profiler design, though the system has matured since that paper was written. The OCEANS 2001 paper describes the results of a short but highly successful deployment on the south flank of the Hawaiian Ridge during January of 2001. Engineering and sensor data are presented.
Summer 2001 - Sediment Trap Upgrade
We have upgraded TT8 based sediment trap software to include features that have been standard on our other systems for the past several years. The most important feature is non-volatile data storage. A free, field installable software upgrade is all that is required to add this capability to existing systems. Contact us for more information and to receive upgrades suitable for your existing, TT8 based, McLane sediment traps.