MacArtney Develops Advanced Telemetry System for Jasco Underwater Listening Stations
concluded to be facing an approaching threat to survival and recovery. At Boundary Pass in the Salish Sea, an enhanced monitoring project provides an underwater sound picture of the Southern Resident Killer Whale's habitat, consequently rendering the most effective noise reduction measures.The Jasco Underwater Listening Stations (ULS), commissioned by Transport Canada under the federal government's five-year Whales Initiative, will passively track endangered whales and thousands of commercial vessels frequenting British Columbia's southern ports on an annual basis.On the system solution
Underwater Glider Goes Searching for North Atlantic Right Whales
JASCO Applied Sciences and Teledyne Webb Research have teamed to deploy a Slocum G3 underwater glider fitted with JASCO’s OceanObserver intelligent acoustic monitoring system in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.With the support of Dalhousie University and the Ocean Tracking Network, the glider was deployed September 15 in the Orpheline Channel on a six-week test mission to attempt to detect and record North Atlantic right whales. In 2017, 12 individuals of this endangered species died in the Gulf, likely as a result of ship strikes and entanglements in fishing gear.The 1.5-meter-long Slocum glider is
Hunting Hydrocarbons
Slocum G2 Glider can operate down to 1,000m and for 4,000-6,000km, with alkaline batteries (600-1,500km with alkaline), for up to six months (30 days with alkaline), traveling at up to 2kt. Positional accuracy can be supported using a Doppler velocity log (DVL) and magnetometers.Working with Canada-based JASCO Applied Sciences, Blue Ocean has been doing passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) projects to aid environmental and anthropogenic monitoring during seismic surveys and, it hopes soon, also around offshore wind piling operations monitoring. For PAM operations, broad spectrum hydrophones are mounted to
New Monitoring Platform Launched in Minas Passage
, FORCE conducts an environmental effects monitoring program for fish, lobster marine mammals, seabirds, and marine noise. FORCE works with academic and industry research partners, including the Sea Mammal Research Unit Consulting (Canada), University of Maine, Acadia University, Luna Ocean Consulting, JASCO Applied Sciences, Ocean Sonics, Nexus Coastal Resource Management, and Envirosphere Consultants, to collect data and report results to the public and regulators – supporting an informed conversation about in-stream tidal energy technology
New Site Data Collected for Fundy Tidal Project
mobilization and assembly Dynamic Systems Analysis (Halifax, NS) tidal flow loadings and platform deployment modelling Earle MacAloney Excavation Ltd. (Parrsboro, NS) on-land platform management EMO Marine Technologies Ltd. (Dartmouth, NS) – fibre optic system design and build JASCO Applied Sciences (Dartmouth, NS) – passive acoustic science and technology Lenkeek Vessel Engineering (Dartmouth, NS) – platform final design Ocean Networks Canada (Victoria, BC) – initial concept development, ongoing online data management OceanMoor Technical Services
Port Monitors Impact of Ship Noise on Whales
whales. In order to better understand and manage the impact of shipping activities on whales throughout the southern coast of British Columbia, a hydrophone listening station has been deployed by the Port Metro Vancouver, with support from the University of Victoria’s Ocean Networks Canada and JASCO Applied Sciences, to monitor underwater vessel noise in the Strait of Georgia. The hydrophone listening station deployment and monitoring activities are part of the Enhancing Cetacean Habitat and Observation (ECHO) Program, which aims to find ways to reduce impacts that shipping may
AMAR Mission to VENUS
JASCO Applied Sciences has deployed since early March two of its AMAR underwater sound monitoring systems on the VENUS underwater observatory for a technology demonstration and data gathering mission planned to last several months. VENUS (Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea) is a cabled ocean observatory, in the Salish Sea coastal waters of British Columbia, operated by Ocean Networks Canada. The AMAR is JASCO’s advanced platform for collecting and delivering precisely calibrated acoustic and oceanographic data for ocean monitoring. It enables scientists to collect multi-sensor data
Jasco has a Long History in Acoustics
A small Canadian company is using its “scientific excellence” in acoustics to advance human and industrial activities mainly in a marine environment. JASCO Applied Sciences has more than 30 years of experience in various aspects of marine acoustics. It has delivered its expertise internationally and has become one of the global leaders in marine acoustic data collection and analysis. The company was initially formed as JASCO Research in 1981 in Victoria, B.C. by Joseph A. Scrimger (JASCO), a scientist with Defense Research Establishment Pacific (DREP) and an
Lockheed Martin Seeking Atlantic Canada Companies for Shipbuilding Projects
Scotia companies include Accu Translation, Akoostix, Amirix/Vemco, Armament Technology, Aspin Kemp and Associates, Atlantis Systems EduPlus, Bluedrop Performance Learning, Canadian Maritime Engineering, CarteNav, Dalhousie University, EMO Marine Technologies, Geospectrum, Hawboldt Industries, HMRI, IMP, Jasco Research, Joubeh, Marand Engineering / Portsmouth Atlantic, Metocean Data Systems, Moog Components Group, Ocean Sonic, Pro-Oceanus, Rolls-Royce, Ultra Electronics Maritime Systems, Xeos and others. Newfoundland and Labrador companies include Allswater, Avalon Controls, C&W Offshore,
February 2024
