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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 »

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 »

(Washington, D.C.) – The Consortium for Ocean Leadership  (OL) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) announced McLane Research Laboratories, of East Falmouth, Mass., will provide the Wire Following Profiler for the Coastal and Global Scale Nodes (CGSN) component of the OOI

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McLane participated in the first Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) visit by Gov. Deval Patrick. During the October 12 briefing, the Governor toured the WHOI Labs and was updated on a number of key projects. McLane joined a project briefing by WHOI Senior Scientist Heidi Sosik.

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Subscribe to our newsletter, now in electronic format. In the new Fall issue, learn about the Lake Moored Profiler (LMP) and how scientists are meeting the sampling challenges of lake environments. Read more »

The advantage of samplers that perform in-situ, real-time laboratory analysis is evidenced in a C-MORE BioLINCS marine microbe study North of Oahu. The deployment features the ESP and other instruments that conduct studies in the field which often depend upon a return to sophisticated laboratory environments. Read more »

McLane Moored Profiler (MMP) sensor options now include the Nortek AquaDopp HR and Satlantic SUNA sensors. Also, the Seabird Inductive Modem (IMM) communication protocol has been fully implemented as an option to inductively transfer files. The AquaDopp collects Doppler acoustic current measurements, and the SUNA is a nitrate sensor. For a full up-to-date list of integrated MMP sensors, view the MMP section of our website. Read more »

Changing schedules or triggering samples in mid-deployment is now possible with new adaptive sampling options available for McLane Profilers and Samplers.

Adaptive profiling uses inductive telemetry and a surface package to communicate with profiler firmware during the deployment The user can then program a new schedule which is transferred to the profiler during the next inductive telemetry session. Adaptive sampling provides a command line interface 

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