A landmark project supported by the Innovative Solutions Canada (ISC) “Real-Time Marine Mammal Monitoring Service via Uncrewed Surface Vessel” program, has successfully demonstrated a novel and effective method for real-time marine mammal monitoring.

In a recent deployment off the coast of Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and JASCO Applied Sciences, successfully demonstrated the ability to detect and localize marine mammals using a fleet of Slocum autonomous underwater gliders. The gliders were deployed in Roseway Basin on the Scotian Shelf, a region recognized as a critical habitat for endangered and at-risk marine mammals. Two DFO gliders and one JASCO glider were equipped with JASCO’s OceanObserver™ directional Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) system.

JASCO Applied Sciences (JASCO), Blue Ocean Marine Tech Systems (BOMTS), Teledyne Marine (Teledyne) and WTD71 collaborated to experiment and demonstrate novel passive acoustic real-time monitoring capabilities from marine unmanned systems during the 14th edition of REPMUS.

JASCO Applied Sciences is pleased to announce that it has acquired Cryosphere Innovation, a New Hampshire based technology company that creates solutions for autonomously observing climate change in the Arctic.

JASCO Applied Sciences (Canada) Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has acquired the assets and intellectual property of Autonomous Marine Systems (AMS), Inc. from Signal Ventures Ltd., of the United Kingdom. 

July 2024 – JASCO Applied Sciences (Australia) Pty Ltd. welcomes new Technical Director, Dr. Capri Jolliffe.

July 2024 – JASCO Applied Sciences (USA) Inc. welcomes new Director of Strategic Programs, Laura Morse.

Özkan Sertlek, the 2024 recipient of the prestigious A B Wood medal, is a senior scientist with JASCO Applied Sciences based in the Netherlands. The medal is awarded by the Institute of Acoustics in alternate years to acousticians based in the UK/Europe (even years) and in the USA/Canada (odd years). The award is aimed at early career researchers, under 40 years of age, whose work is associated with the sea.

JASCO Applied Sciences (JASCO) and Blue Ocean Monitoring (BOM) have entered a global strategic partnership. This partnership combines JASCO’s understanding of underwater acoustics, and their OceanObserver™ high-performance passive acoustic data acquisition and processing system capable of on-board, in-situ signal processing, with BOM’s cutting-edge expertise developing and operating uncrewed underwater vehicles (UUVs).

The Atlantic Deepwater Ecosystem Observatory Network (ADEON) project received the 2023 National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) Excellence in Partnering Award. The award was presented at the 2024 Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.

December 2023 – JASCO Applied Sciences (USA) Inc. welcomes new Managing Director, Sarah Tsoflias.

November 2023 – Dr. Adam Frankel has joined JASCO Applied Sciences (USA) Inc., as a Senior Bioacoustician.

Dalhousie University’s CEOTR Group and JASCO Applied Sciences assist DRDC in preventing harm during military training activities using maritime autonomous systems.

JASCO’s OceanObserver™ real-time monitoring system was deployed aboard a Slocum Glider in the world’s largest military exercise dedicated to the exploration and testing of maritime unmanned systems.

JASCO Applied Sciences (JASCO), is proud to announce the appointment of our new Engineering Manager and Customer Support Specialist.

Ørsted and Eversource Energy partner with JASCO Applied Sciences and Rutgers Center for Ocean Observing Leadership to develop a near real-time monitoring solution for Atlantic cod, during the construction of the South Fork Wind Project.

To celebrate Earth Day 2023, JASCO offices around the world organized events to give back to their communities and invest in our planet.

In their article titled Doing Business on Mighty Waters - Uncrewed published in the Marine Mammals special issue of ECO Magazine, JASCO Applied Sciences’ John Moloney and Open Ocean Robotics’ Julie Angus discuss the ‘Marine Mammal Monitoring Service via Uncrewed Surface Vessel’ project, sponsored by Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) for the Innovations Solutions Canada program.

JASCO Applied Sciences secures a new facility in Rhode Island to support its US operations. The 3000 square-foot facility is located at 165 Dean Knauss Drive, Narragansett, just in behind the University of Rhode Island’s Bay Campus. Initially consisting of two 1500 square foot bays providing office and lab space along with a marine acoustics services and autonomous vehicles support facility, the new location will open in April 2022.

John Moloney is host to a Teledyne Webb Research webinar that describes the unique capabilities of JASCO’s OceanObserver acoustic and oceanographic data acquisition and processing system aboard the Teledyne Slocum Glider, as demonstrated in a successful mission to Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence in 2018 in search of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.