In September 2017, JASCO’s global headquarters in Halifax, NS, achieved ISO 9001:2008 certification, which has since been updated to ISO 9001:2015. In November 2017, the Victoria, BC, office also achieved ISO 9001:2015 certification, meaning that JASCO Applied Sciences (Canada) Ltd is now fully certified.
Read MoreOn November 14, US$1 million of funding was announced for the Stones Metocean Monitoring Project. JASCO will receive a portion of these funds to deploy an AMAR G4 alongside Shell’s Stones Monitoring Station in the Gulf of Mexico. At 3000 m depth, this will be JASCO’s deepest acoustic deployment yet.
Read MoreJASCO 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. The glider was deployed September 15 in the Orpheline Channel on a 6-week test mission to attempt to detect and record North Atlantic right whales.
Read MoreDr Jonathan Vallarta, a Senior Project Scientist with JASCO Applied Sciences based in Mexico, represented that country at the nineteenth meeting of the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (ICP19) convened 18-22 June 2018 at UN Headquarters in New York.
Read MoreJASCO scientists Dr Jonathan Vallarta and Dr Melanie Austin are helping build Mexican scientific capacity and increase national interest in the field of underwater acoustics. In September, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada (Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, CICESE) hosted a three-day acoustic workshop at the UNAM campus in Ensenada, Mexico.
Read MoreThe JASCO Applied Sciences global team has been joined in January 2018 by two distinguished scientists well known in the underwater acoustics and bioacoustics communities. Michael Ainslie has joined JASCO Applied Sciences (Deutschland) GmbH and will be based in The Hague, Netherlands; Klaus Lucke has joined JASCO Applied Sciences (Australia) Pty Ltd in the Brisbane office of the company.
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