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Axys Technologies
Design, manufacturing, and maintenance of data acquisition, processing, and telemetry systems.

Bluefin
Bluefin designs and manufactures AUVs, specializing in flexible vehicles that can carry a wide range of sensors such as CTDs, Multi-Beam and Side-Scan Sonars, and Sub-Bottom Profilers. Bluefin AUVs are small, robust, and equipped with high quality sensors, providing reliability, ease-of-operation, and high quality data.

Brooke Ocean Technology Ltd.
SeaHorse is a moored wave-powered profiler that uses wave action to power a profiling platform down a taut mooring wire. The SeaHorse can be configured to collect ocean data profiles using an SBE 19 that is equipped to measure CTD, fluorometry, turbidity, and optical characteristics. The SeaHorse has been deployed to monitor physical and biological oceanographic parameters including algae production and environmental dumping. The system was developed jointly with the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Ocean Physics Division of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

Chelsea Instruments
Aquatracka III fluorometers, Alphatracka transmissometers.

Coastal Environmental Systems
Controllers, data loggers, and telemetry packages that take data from a variety of sensors and then process, store, and/or telemeter the data. Many telemetry methods are available (Radio, Cell phone, Telephone, Satellite, etc.). Coastal has 18 years of experience in integrating a wide variety of sensors (including Sea-Bird). The controller/loggers can process anything from simple analog inputs to multi-drop addressable serial sensor arrays. Processing can range from simple averages to full FFTs.

Hafmynd - Gavia Ltd.
Small Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), ideal for research, deep-water surveying, monitoring, or surveillance.

Hydroid
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs).

Hydro-Optics, Biology, & Instrumentation Laboratories (HOBI Labs)
Optical instruments designed for the harsh marine environment. The product line includes multi-wavelength optical backscattering sensors, combined backscattering / transmissometers and absorption meters, spectral radiometers, and more.

McLane Research Laboratories
Moored Profiler (MMP) autonomously profiles the water column along a fixed tether while carrying a selection of oceanographic sensors.

METOCEAN Data Systems Limited
Buoy systems.

Mooring Systems Inc. (MSI)
MSI provides custom mooring designs as well as fabricating complete mooring systems from buoy to anchor. MSI specializes in wire rope and synthetic line assemblies, anchors, instrument frames, pressure housings, and a wide range of compatible hardware.

Nortek AS
Nortek's Aquadopp line of shallow and deep water current meters can supply power and receive data (RS-232) from Sea-Bird's MicroCAT C-T sensors  (SBE 37-SM, 37-SI). Configuration and testing is done with Nortek software and the C-T data are stored in the Aquadopp for easy post-processing.

OceanScience
OceanScience provides a variety of deployment solutions for oceanographic instruments, including surface buoys, subsurface buoys, trawl-resistant seafloor landers, and high-quality syntactic foam. OceanScience focuses on using modern materials and processes to provide rugged, corrosion-resistant, reliable instrument platforms.

Pro-Oceanus Systems, Inc.
Pro-Oceanus Systems manufactures dissolved gas sensors, including O2, N2, and dissolved air (known as gas tension). Sensors can provide measurements for up to a year, with a maximum operating depth of 500 m. Gas Tension Device sensors (GTDs) can be accommodated on a Sea-Bird moored CTD (SBE 16plus).

RESON
RESON manufactures multibeam echosounders and forward-looking sonars, acoustic transducers and reference hydrophones, acoustic calibration systems, and homogenizers.

Sequoia Scientific
Sequoia Scientific manufactures optical instruments for use in sediment transport and optical oceanography research -- LISST-25 Total Suspended Sediment Sensor, LISST-100 Particle Size Analyzer, HydroLight Version 4.0 Radiative Transfer Model.

Sontek
Acoustic Doppler water velocity sensors for the ocean, rivers, lakes, and the laboratory. In addition to profilers suitable for a wide range of applications, Sontek produces instruments for measurement of directional wave spectra, river discharge, estuarine and nearshore flow, turbulence, and deep-sea currents.

Teledyne RD Instruments
Velocity measurement of water currents and vessel speed. The RDI Doppler Volume Sampler (DVS) is available with Sea-Bird's inductive modem and high precision temperature sensor. RDI ADCPs (Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers) are used in oceanography, hydrology, limnology, circulation modeling, wave gauging, and open and closed channel discharge measurement. Precise navigation information for underwater vehicles is provided by the RDI DVL (Doppler Velocity Log).

Webb Research Corporation
ALACE and APEX floats.

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