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April 5, 2012
McLane at IPY Conference in Montreal (22-27 April)

Romor Ocean Solutions, McLane's representative in Canada, will be attending the International Polar Year (IPY) 2012 Conference in Montreal Canada (22-27 April). Read more »
March 20, 2012
Dr. Chip Brier at McLane

Many thanks to Dr. Chip Brier from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who gave a talk at McLane on his work on mineral composition of hydrothermal plume particulates. Dr. Brier also spoke about his instrumentation and the challenges of sampling the particulates and water of from vent orifices using ROVs. His work with biologists on the interplay of minerals and microbes are an important piece of understanding the life cycles of the ocean.
March 12, 2012
McLane at Oceanology International in London (13-15 March)

Kelso Riddle, McLane's representative in the United Kingdom, will be attending Oceanology International in ExCel London (13-15 March). He will be sharing booth I155 with Innovatum and showcasing McLane profilers, samplers, and flotation. Read more »
March 5, 2012
March Newsletter

Subscribe to our newsletter, now in electronic format. In the new March issue, see how a McLane Steel buoy surfaced intact after 10 years presumed lost at sea. Read more »
March 1, 2012
Delegation from China visits McLane

29 Feb 2012: McLane was honored by a visit from a delegation from Qingdao, China. This group of five men and women were comprised of professors and staff from the Engineering and Physical Oceanography department of Ocean University. The group was hosted and organized by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Read more »
March 1, 2012
WTS-LV and Metalloenzyme Studies
Seven WTS-LV samplers were deployed recently by WHOI collaborators Dr. Mak Saito and Dr. Phoebe Lam. The cruise, which took place in the Equatorial Pacific between Hawaii and Samoa, was sampling metalloenzymes, which are key catalysts in global biogeochemical cycling.  
 

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February 10, 2012
ONR/MTS Buoy Workshop (March 5-8, Victoria, BC)

McLane will have a display at the 9th annual Office of Naval Research / Marine Technology Society Buoy Workshop (March 5 to 8, 2012) in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.  Read more »
January 9, 2012
Louisiana State Team Visits McLane for Training

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
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 mooring surfaced with enough battery power to turn on and broadcast its location. Read more »
October 31, 2011
McLane Awarded Contract

(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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