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.

JASCO 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.

Dr 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.

JASCO 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.