ocean instrumentation News
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Sequoia Scientific, Inc., Ocean Instruments, and Geometius Deliver Sediment Dredging Measurement System
Sequoia Scientific, Inc. (Bellevue, WA), Ocean Instruments (Fall City, WA), and Sequoia’s Dutch distributor, Geometius, have delivered a Fast Oceanographic Automated Measurement (FOAM) system for dredge monitoring. The FOAM system is composed of a pump and winch with a fluid rotary joint, 100 m hybrid cable with hose and conductors, a tow sled with an RBR CTD and a Sequoia LISST-ABS, and a ...
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Sequoia Welcomes Anna Boyar as our Service & Support Manager!
We are excited to announced the latest addition to Sequoia Scientific, Inc! Anna Boyar has joined us as our Service & Support Manager. Anna graduated in 2019 from the University of Washington School of Oceanography, focusing on ocean instrumentation and sediment dynamics. While in school, she loved going on research cruises and being a part of the oceanography community. In the year after ...
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Highest-ever winter water temperatures recorded
Satellites have given oceanographers an insight into a remarkable phenomenon – a significant extension of the Leeuwin Current curling around the southern tip of Tasmania and reaching as far north as St Helens. Remote sensing specialists at CSIRO's Wealth from Oceans Flagship have been observing the current in recent days using satellite data, and ocean measurements made near Maria Island on ...
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McLane research named 2017 MA small business exporter of the year
The Small Business Administration (SBA) has selected McLane Research Laboratories, Inc. as 2017 Exporter of the Year for the Commonwealth of MA. “McLane has not only been a recipient of SBA STEP grants that have assisted in defraying costs to promote American exports, but has also worked with the MA Export Center and the Small Business Development Center to reach new markets ...
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Sequoia Receives Grant from NASA to Develop New Water Absorption Instrument
Washington-based Sequoia Scientific, Inc. is pleased to announce receipt of a Phase I SBIR grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop a new in-situ hyperspectral ocean water absorption instrument. Sequoia is the primer recipient of the grant, which also includes ocean color experts Drs. Michael Twardowski and Alberto Tonizzo as consultants. Sequoia’s Vice ...
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HORIBA Jobin Yvon Gratings in Sentinel-3A satellite helps monitor land and sea
The Sentinel-3A satellite was launched on February 16th, 2016 from Russia to its sun-synchronous orbit more than 800kms above to monitor the health of our earth’s land and oceans. Five instruments have been integrated on board, including the Ocean and Land Colour Instrument (OLCI), a spectrometer based on a custom HORIBA Jobin Yvon (HJY) concave diffraction grating. The mission is based ...
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NASA Voyage Set To Explore Link Between Sea Saltiness And Climate
A NASA-sponsored expedition is set to sail to the North Atlantic's saltiest spot to get a detailed, 3-D picture of how salt content fluctuates in the ocean's upper layers and how these variations are related to shifts in rainfall patterns around the planet. The research voyage is part of a multi-year mission, dubbed the Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study (SPURS), which will ...
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IFCB in new Long-Term Ecological Research Site
Imaging FlowCytobot samplers (IFCBs) manufactured by McLane will be installed in a new Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site off the Northeast coast of the United States. LTER programs focus attention on specific sites representing major ecosystem types, and undertake long-term assessments of populations, communities, and the physical environment. Dr. Heidi Sosik, Woods Hole Oceanographic ...
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New Technology for Ocean Acidification Research
Ocean pH has dropped from approximately 8.2 to 8.1 pH over the past 200 years, representing a 25% increase in acidity. The development of better instruments to measure ocean pH, particularly in the deep ocean, is vital to understanding the magnitude and impact of these changes. High-resolution in-situ measurements of pH in the ocean are now possible with innovative adaptations to ion sensitive ...
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Understanding events of the 1930s, 1950s may help in forecasting future drought
During the iconic Dust Bowl, great clouds of dust swirled east out of the U.S. Northern Plains, blackening skies as far away as New York. Drought conditions set up in 1932 and didn’t ease for seven years. Just a decade later, another severe drought hit, this one scorching the Southern Plains and Southwest. ESRL scientists seeking to improve today’s drought warning systems recently turned their ...
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Tall Towers Fitted to Track CO2 Emissions
BOULDER, Colorado, July 31, 2007 (ENS) - A new sensor in what will be a nationwide network for tracking carbon dioxide is now monitoring the air over Colorado's Front Range. A 1,000 foot tall tower east of Erie is one of 12 such towers that are being fitted with instruments by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, to capture the regional ebb and flow of atmospheric carbon. ...
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Picarro Announces 3x Performance Increase for Isotopic Carbon Dioxide Analysis Enabling Broad New Applications in Science and Research
Picarro, Inc., the world's leading provider of instruments for carbon and water cycle measurements, today announced a new carbon isotope analyzer with three times the precision and four times the stability of Picarro's current industry-leading isotopic CO2 instruments. With a performance specification of 0.1 per mil precision for 13C/12C ratio measurements in CO2 in a 5 minute measurement and ...
By Picarro, Inc
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NASA`s
NASA's 'Age of Aquarius' dawned Friday with the launch of an international satellite carrying the agency-built Aquarius instrument that will measure the saltiness of Earth's oceans to advance our understanding of the global water cycle and improve climate forecasts. The Aquarius/SAC-D observatory rocketed into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California atop a United Launch Alliance ...
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NASA Sets Sail on Second Leg of Arctic Ocean Research Voyage
Scientists embark this week from Alaska on the second and final campaign of a NASA field campaign to study how changing conditions in the Arctic affect the ocean's chemistry and ecosystems. On June 25, the ICESCAPE mission, or "Impacts of Climate on Ecosystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment," resumes its shipborne investigation of the impacts of climate change in the Chukchi ...
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New radar satellite technique sheds light on ocean current dynamics
Ocean surface currents have long been the focus of research due to the role they play in weather, climate and transportation of pollutants, yet essential aspects of these currents remain unknown. By employing a new technique – based on the same principle as police speed-measuring radar guns – to satellite radar data, scientists can now obtain information necessary to understand better the ...
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