The pictures of McLane instruments displayed on this gallery page were received from some of our customers. We encourage and invite anyone with pictures of, or stories about, McLane products and their use to let us showcase them here on our web page. We can work with either hard copy or electronic submissions, originals can be returned at your request, and photo/text credits will be listed. We look forward to seeing your work.

• IAEA deploys a WTS-LV
• Montana State University deploys a Sediment Trap
• University of Alaska deploys the MMP at 78 N
• Sakhalin Research Institute and the ZPS
• Bedford Institute of Oceanography at Hibernia
• NOAA/PMEL at-sea delivery
• USGS in Massachusetts Bay

IAEA deploys a WTS-LV

Sandor Muslow sent these photos of an WTS-LV deployment conducted by IAEA.

Montana State University deploys a Sediment Trap

John Priscu sent this photo of the Montana State University Sediment Trap deployment in the Lake Bonney region of Antarctica.

University of Alaska deploys the MMP at 78 N

David Leech sent this photo of the University of Alaska MMP deployment at 78N 125 E and reports that this is his favorite action shot from the last deployment in the Laptev Sea.

Sakhalin Research Institute and the ZPS

The series of four images below come to us courtesy of Gennady Kantakov of the Sakhalin Research Institute in Russia (SIFO). Gennady has been using the first two production units of the McLane Zooplankton Sampler (ZPS) with great success for several years now. The samplers were named Chook and Gek after characters in an anthology of Russian literature. Chook and Gek are two young boys who travel to a field research camp in Siberia with their mother to spend Christmas with their father. Due to some miscommunication the camp is deserted when they arrive. They survive the elements with ingenuity and bravery and are reunited with their father and the rest of the returning scientific party in time for the New Year.

The first two images show the R/V Dmitry Peskov approaching the mooring that supported Chook on his first deployment. Chook was deployed on July 13, 2000 at submooring Clione from the same vessel. The recovery was November 10, 2000. The goal of the deployment was collection of fifty nighttime zooplankton samples in the La Perouse (Soya) strait between the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk with 48 hours between samples.

The McLane buoy with Chook visble near the water line of the R/V Dmitry Peskov was successfully hooked by Gennady and the crew and will shortly be on board.
Chook just before being disconnected from the mooring line. Fifty samples are wound up on the lefthand spool. The electronic data file was safely recovered a few minutes after this photograph was taken. Gennady tells the rest of the story: Clione replacement time included data output, batteries replacement from Sontek Argonaut-MD, YSI6600, attachment Gek, new wheels (anchors), supervising releaser estimated 2 houres with small time tail. Submooring Clione occupied with Gek now continues observation and sampling with scheduled next replacement in March-April. Sampled zooplankton under analysis now. Aims: zooplankton biomass and species composition time-series . Cheers for McLane and SIFO efforts. Best Words and Thank you, guys
Bedford Institute of Oceanography at the Hibernia Platform
	The image at left shows a WTS being recovered near the Hibernia oil production site on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. The WTS is used by Dr. Peter Cranford, an Environmental Research Biologist at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Nova Scotia. Dr. Cranford's research program is investigating alternative ways to monitor the environmental impacts of offshore oil and gas production drilling activities. The McLane WTS provides a time-series of particulate drilling wastes near the seabed. Additionally, an in situ fluorometer and a transmissometer were attached to the WTS frame to continuously monitor hydrocarbon and particle concentrations, respectively. (The fluorometer and transmissometer operate independently of the WTS and were installed by Dr. Cranford whose note with the image added "thanks for providing the space". He is certainly welcome. Our frames are generally made to accomodate additional instruments, either those added by customers, as here, or external sensors for environmental monitoring and sample triggering that are integrated into the system by McLane engineers.)
	The hydrocarbon and particulate data from the fluorometer and transmissometer compliment a study on the use of caged bivalves for monitoring the uptake and biological effects of drilling waste contaminants. The scallops and mussels held in the bivalve mooring (see photo at right) are filter-feeders. The WTS provides, on its sample filters, time-series data on particulate food supplies, including contaminants, for comparison with the bivalve data. The study was conducted at the Hibernia oil production site on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. The images were both taken by Dr Cranford on Aug. 7, 1999 and show the moorings being retrieved by the C.C.G.S Hudson from a station located 500 m to the west of the Hibernia production platform. The study, after this initial shakedown period, is scheduled to continue next year.
NOAA/PMEL at-sea delivery
We deliver: McLane provided some of the critical parts and software for a sampler built by Principal Investigator David Butterfield of NOAA/PMEL. Photos in this series were taken by Dr. Butterfield and his team. The McLane equipment included pumps, multiport valves, electronic controllers, and operating software for incorporation in a larger system. While at sea in the summer of 1998, one of the electronics stacks was damaged when two cables linking some of the system modules were accidently interchanged and the equipment was energized.
Working by telephone, email, and fax, McLane personnel and the NOAA/PMEL team identified the cause of failure and the extent of the damage. At sea repair was determined to be impossible and the ship's location and science schedule made a return to port both difficult and costly. The solution: McLane personnel quickly prepared and configured a new electronics stack for at-sea delivery and the NOAA/PMEL team organized "Operation Buffalo Chip".
The electronics stack was delivered from the Mclane labs to an Air Force C-131 and air dropped to the ship.
The water and shock resistant package was recovered from the water, . . .
received on board, unwrapped, . . .
and installed in the sampler with success and great rejoicing. Elapse time? Just three days. At McLane, we always deliver, but not always by air.
Long Term USGS Study Site in Massacusetts Bay
McLane sediment trap being recovered by the USCGC Marcus Hanna from a long term USGS study site in Massachusetts Bay. The site has been monitored nearly continuously since December of 1989. One of the Principal Investigators is Dr. Michael Bothner of the USGS. Photo credit for these images goes to Dann Blackwood, USGS.
The trap is guided to the deck.
USGS personnel recovering the sample bottles from the trap.
In addition to McLane sediment traps, the USGS has employed a developmental series of McLane Action Triggered Water Transfer Systems (ATWTS) to acquire samples of suspended sediment during storm events at the Massachusetts Bay site. Dr. Bothner is shown here examining one of the earliest examples of a McLane ATWTS, a unit that is still in use today.
The top of the early ATWTS can be seen in the lower right hand corner of this image, mounted on a bottom landing tripod on board the USCGC Marcus Hanna.
Dr. Bothner cleaning a later model ATWTS, dubbed the "super sucker" by the USGS team, after a successful deployment and recovery at the study site in 1998.