2024
- October ASL Awarded Subcontract to Assess Metocean Data Needs for Offshore Wind Development in Atlantic Canada
- September ASL Co-Sponsors Climate Research Expedition to Southeast Greenland
- August ASL Successfully Completes Metocean Survey for FortisBC Energy Inc.
- May ASL partners with Edgewise Environmental
- January ASL’s Dr. Matthew Asplin joins the Marine Renewables Canada Board of Directors
2023
- December ASL Floating New Wave Measurement Opportunities
- November Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler (AZFP) Used to
Monitor Diving Insects in Lake Malawi, East Africa
- September ASL Invited to Teach Hydroacoustics at Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre
- May ASL is Now a Region Representative for ANB Sensors
- March ASL Represents WERA’s Ocean Radar, A System Suited for Surveillance Applications of Off-shore Infrastructure
- February ASL Conducts Field Trials of Prototype Autonomous Long Endurance Split-Beam Sonar
- February ASL and DASCO Equipment Proudly Present Sofar Spotter Metocean Buoys for Real-Time Oceanographic Data
- January Acoustic Scintillation Flow Meter Used for Flow Measurements at the Beaucaire Bulb Turbine Hydropower Plant, France
2022
- October ASL’s David Fissel Named a Fellow of
the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS)
- October ASL Hires Amanda Dash for the Position of
Machine Learning and Computer Vision Specialist
- September ASL Announces Dr. Philip Matthews as the 2022 Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler (AZFP) Award Contest Winner
- September ASL Hires Mitchell Bonney for the Position of Remote Sensing Scientist
- June ASL Hires Dan Walters for the Position of Data Scientist
- June Vancouver Island Students Receive Top Marks at the 2022 Canada-Wide Science Fair
- May ASL Hires Devin Ireson for the Position of Software Developer and IT Specialist
- April ASL Hires Julek Chawarski for the Position of Biological Oceanographer
- April Enter ASL‘s 2022 Early Career Scientist Contest to Win the Use of an Autonomous Scientific Echo Sounder for Three-Months
- March AZFP-ice Deployed Near Nain, Labrador to Examine Ice Characteristics and Biological Activity in a Dynamic Environment.
- March Newly Awarded Challenge: Develop a Canadian Coastal Zone Information System
- January Acoustic Scintillation Flow Method Mentioned in Recent American Society of Mechanical Engineers Performance Test Code Document
2021
- November ASL Introduces the AZFP-ice, the Next Generation of Upward Looking Sonars for Ice-Infested Waters
- October North Atlantic Right Whale Predator–Prey Relationship Study Using an Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler
- September Acoustic Scintillation Flow Meter Installation Replaces Over-Velocity Detection System at BC Hydro’s Wahleach Project
- June Canada’s Ocean Supercluster Announces Real-time Bubble Diffuser Aeration Entrainment Monitor Project Real-time monitoring for bubble systems in aquaculture fish farms
- May The Salish Sea Community Guardians Invites Community Collaboration to Enhance the Salish Seas Herring Spawning Recovery
- March ASL Environmental Sciences and DASCO Equipment Enter Product and Service Partnership
- January ASL Environmental Sciences Presents ClearSignal Antifoulant Coating by Severn Marine Technologies
2020
- November EcoLight AZFP Buoy to Monitor Light and Under-Ice Zooplankton
- November Rhonda Reidy Awarded NSERC Grant in Partnership with ASL to Measure Baleen Whale Prey in British Columbia
- October ASL Equipment Used to Monitor Algal Blooms in Eutrophic Lake
- September ASL Announces Dannielle Eager as the 2020 Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler (AZFP) Award Contest Winner
- August Hydro-acoustic Studies of Eulachon Fish Distribution Related to Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project
- May Enter ASL‘s 2020 Early Career Scientist Contest to Win the Use of an Autonomous Scientific Echo Sounder for Three-Months
- May ASL Environmental Sciences Assists with Oceanographic Data Collection for Labrador Marine Research and Monitoring
- April Update on Laura Hobbs and Roland Proud, AZFP Recovery Lake Victoria, East Africa
- March ASL Environmental Sciences, Part of the Marine Arctic Ecosystem Study (MARES) Wins 2019 Excellence in Partnering Award
- March SeaCycler Interactive Deep Ocean Observatory Adds ASL’s Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler to Payload
2019
- December Airborne Hyperspectral Survey and Mineral Mapping in South Greenland
- November Machine Learning for Analyzing Data from ASL’s Echosounders
- September ASL Announces Dr. Laura Hobbs and Dr. Roland Proud as the 2019 Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler (AZFP) Award Contest Winners
- August ASL Hires Dr. Matthew Asplin for the Position of Metocean and Arctic Project Manager
- July Dissolved Oxygen Loggers From ASL’s Lease Pool Reveal Diurnal Dynamics of Eutrophic Lake
- June Dr. Gary Borstad Receives Val Shaw Memorial Award from the Canadian Remote Sensing Society
- April Enter ASL‘s 2019 Early Career Scientist Contest to Win the Use of an Autonomous Scientific Echo Sounder for Three-Months
- March ASL Tours College of Marine Science University of South Florida (USF) Slocum Glider Laboratory
- March ASL Hires Martin Taillefer for the Position of Senior Project Manager and Business Development
- February Computer Vision-based Detection of Fish From Acoustic Backscatter Time Series
- January Acoustic Detection of Oil in the Water Column Using an
Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler
2018
- December MUD: The Next Generation in Acoustic Backscatter Measurements
- November Sea Level Variation Study Using GPS and an Ice Profiling Sonar in the Disko Bay Region of Western Greenland
- October Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler Used to Detect Fish and Plankton Movement Between Arctic Marine and Lagoon Environments
- September ASL Hires New Acoustics Scientist Dr. Steve Pearce
- September ASL Announces Its 2018 Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler (AZFP) Award Winner
- August New Application of Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler to Examine the Onset of Hypoxia Using Cyanobacteria as Marker
- June DFO Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler Food Web Study of Keystone Arctic Marine Species
- May NOAA to use ASL’s Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler in Proposed Strategy to Examine Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Krill in Antarctic
- April Enter ASL‘s 2018 Early Career Scientist contest to win the use of the autonomous scientific echo sounder for 3 months
- March Raft-mounted Multifrequency Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler with Cellular Modem Yamada Bay, Japan
- February Comprehensive Glider-Based Ecosystem Study in Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea
2017
- October US Naval Research Laboratory plans to use an Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler (AZFP) to conduct ecosystem research
- September Unmanned Aerial Systems Enhance Earth Observation Applications
- September Ocean Networks Canada's WERA Radar Detected Tsunami Event Sixty Kilometres Offshore More than Twenty Minutes Before It Arrived on Shore
- August Fine-scale foraging behaviour of juvenile Pacific salmon and North Pacific humpback whales in British Columbia
- July ASL Happy to Announce its 2017 Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler (AZFP) Award Winner
- July ASL assigned as sales representative for Deep Water Buoyancy products
- April Completion of 7th Consecutive Year of Sea Ice Analysis from the Chukchi Sea
- April Barrow Strait Real-time Ocean Observatory and Canso Strait Test Bed
- February Enter ASL‘s Early Career Scientist contest to win the use of the autonomous scientific echo sounder for 3 months
- January ASL's Ice Profilers Survive Collision with Ice Island and Continue Sampling for Two More Years
- January ASL Assigned as Sale Representative for Teledyne Benthos Products
2016
- December Instrumenting and Testing a New Fishery Echosounder in an Ocean Glider
- November ASL assigned as sales representative for Teledyne Marine Products
- SeptemberASL Environmental Sciences has been leasing MetOcean instruments for 30 years (1987-2016).
- August Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy uses ASL's Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler
- June Conducting multiple frequency acoustic work over-the-side of small vessel with ASL's autonomous scientific echosounder AZFP in Saanich Inlet for Salmon Research
- June Canada Basin Experiment (CBEX)
- May Support for AZFP binary data in Latest Echoview 7.1 release
- April ASL’s AZFP Award Program for Early-Career Scientists - Winner Announcement
- MarchDelivery of ultra-deep Acoustic Zooplankton and Fish Profiler (AZFP) to The Institute of Oceanography and Global Change, Canary Islands, Spain
- March Update on the Uncabled Bio-acoustic Sonar Instruments of Ocean Observatories Initiative
- February ASL’s Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler™ used in Pangnirtung Fiord
- January Early Career Scientist Award Program for ASL’s Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler™
2015
- June 2 MHz Channel - ASL’s Latest Addition to the Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler™ Product
- April Ocean Networks Canada together with ASL install near-field NorthernRadar Tsunami detection array
- April Institute of Ocean Sciences acquires three new ASL AZFPs
- January Ice Studies in Cook Inlet Alaska for an LNG Terminal
2014
- December Three years of additional operational funding in place for the WERA
NorthernRadar™ system on the north shore of the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary
- July ASL Conducts Satellite-based Study of Water Quality of Chilko Lake
- June ASL Environmental Sciences Inc. to provide Un-Cabled Bio-acoustic Sonar Instruments for Ocean Observatories Initiative
- June ASL to Build an Ocean Data Geoportal for Greenland O&G
- May ASL Builds Custom Acoustic Instrument for Deep Ocean Hydrothermal Vent Flow
- March High Resolution Multi-frequency Acoustics for study of Zooplankton
2013
- October Ocean Network Canada (ONC) Hosts a Visiting Scientist from Tokyo University of Martine Science and Technology (TAMU)
- October CHOIRS: Characterization of Hazardous Ocean Ice using RADARSAT and the Ice Profiler (Español)
- May-2013 Caspian Sea Under Ice Study (Español)
- March Successful deployment/recovery of Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler in the Chukchi Sea
2012
- May North American Collaboration with Helzel WERA for Improved HF Radar Systems See photo of Australian installation
- May Launch of the Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler
(Español)
2010 and older
- October-2010 ASL Environmental Sciences moves to larger facility
- March-2009 Merger of ASL and G.A.Borstad Associates Ltd
- July-2005 Current and wave surveys for new tidal power project
- February-2005 New Data Logger from ASL
- January-2005 ASL's Ice Profilerä at
LNG Terminal Site
- May-2004 Fifth year of Oceanographic Studies for Sakhalin Energy;
- April-2004 Lease Instrument for Canoe-Borne Oceanography;
- March-2004 ASL Measures Landfast Ice Movement;
- January-2004 ASL Goes to VENUS;
