Ice Profiler
Wave Profiler
Water Column Profiler
IRIS- Imagenex Datalogger
ASFM - Open Channel
Acoustic Scintillation Flow Meter
Bottom Frames
WERA HF Radar
Shallow Water Ice Profiler

Key Projects

At ASL, we take great pride in our ability to attract and maintain a team of professional, scientific and technical support personnel. Our extensive scientific publication record and our familiarity with clients' special needs have earned ASL solid respect within the environmental industry. Our project-management experience ensures quality service and adherence to schedules and budgets.

The following reports/papers are available for immediate download/viewing:

These reports are stored in Adobe Acrobat® PDF format. You need the Acrobat® Reader (version 3.0 or later), available FREE at Adobe's web site, to view and print this file.

Technical papers

Ice Profiler Water Column Profiler Wave Profiler
Physical Oceanographic Services Numerical Modeling

Ice Profiler

• Marine Ice Profiling: Future Directions (Presented at IceTech 2006)
  (993 kb ~PDF Format)

• Recent developments in Ice and Water Column Profiling Technology (Presented at IAHR 2006) (607 kb ~PDF Format)

• Instrument for Detecting Freeze-up, Mid-Winter and Break-up Ice Processes in Rivers (13th Workshop on the Hydraulics of Ice Covered Rivers 2005) (2889 kb ~PDF Format)

• Realtime monitoring of ice thickness and growth from seafloor - mounted upward -looking sonar instrumentation (POAC 2005)
  (488 kb ~PDF Format)

• Ice drift and draft measurements from moorings at the confederation bridge (627 kb ~PDF Format)

• Upward Looking Ice Profiler Sonar Instruments for Ice Thickness and Topography Measurements (Oceans 2004) (1104 kb ~PDF Format)

• Real - Time Measurements of Ice Draft and Velocity in the St. Lawrence River (Oceans 2004) (1132 kb ~PDF Format)

• Observations and Analyses of an Intense Waves-in-Ice Event In the Sea of Okhotsk. (JGR 2003) (702 kb ~PDF file format)

• Ice-Type Characterization in a Marginal Ice Zone Using RADARSAT and Ice-Profiling Sonar: Tools for Structural Design and Navigation Planning in Ice Infested Waters. (POAC03)
  (1921 kb ~PDF file format)

• Applications of ice profiling sonar technology to scientific, engineering and operational issues in Polar and sub-Polar waters (Oceans International 2002) (544 kb ~PDF Format)

• Indentifying Skylites for AUV Operations Under Pack Ice: Insights from Ice-draft Profiling by Moored Sonar. (Oceans 2002)
  (408 kb ~PDF file format)

• Large Waves in Thick Interior Sakhalin Pack Ice. (POAC2002)
  (818 kb ~PDF file format)

• Ice Profiling Sonar for an AUV: An Approach for Obtaining SCICEX Quality Ice Draft Data by Nicole Tervalon of MBARI
  (Oceanology International Americas (OIA) 2001) (146 kb ~PDF file format)

• Upward Looking Sonar Provides Over-Winter Records of Ice Thickness and Ice Keel Depths off Sakhalin, Russia
  (Sea Technology Magazine article, 1999) (283 kb ~PDF file format)

Water Column Profiler

• The Acoustic Water Column Profiler: A Tool for Long-term Monitoring of Zooplankton Populations (Oceans 2001)
  (792 kb ~ PDF file format)

• A digital programmable high resolution 200khz water column profiler (Oceans 99) (253 kb ~PDF Format)

Wave Profiler

• Wave Measurements Using Upward Looking Sonars in Marginal and Polar Sea Ice Regimes. (International Waves Workshop 2002)
  (1629 kb ~PDF file format)

• Measurement of the wave wash generated by fast ferries with upward looking sonar instrumentation (Fast Ferries 2001) (622 kb ~PDF Format)

• An Upward-Looking Sonar for Wave Measurements on the Continental Shelf (134 kb ~ PDF file format)

• Wave Measurements Using Upward Looking Sonar
  (226 kb ~ PDF file format)

Physical Oceanographic Services

• Norton - A Configurable Tripod for the Study of Near - Bottom Ocean Processes (Sea Technology 2004) (656 kb ~PDF Format)

• Satellite gps measurements of landfast ice displacements in the canadian beaufort during the winter of 2003 (POAC 2005) (118 kb ~PDF Format)

• The Capabilities of Doppler Current Profilers for Directional Wave Measurements in Coastal and Nearshore Waters (Oceans04) (1641 kb ~PDF Format)

• A Configurable Multi-Sensor Tripod For the Study of Near-Bottom Ocean Processes. (OCEANS 2003) (616 kb ~PDF file format)

• Real-Time Monitoring of Currents and Water Level at Second Narrows to Improve Port Efficiency in Vancouver Harbour
  (OCEANS 2003) (692 kb ~PDF file format)

• The Severity of the Iceberg Season on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland: an El Niño Connection? (Tropical Ocean-Atmosphere Newsletter 1986) (3 mb ~ PDF file format)

Numerical Modeling

• 3D Numerical Modeling of Circulations Associated with Submerged Buoyant Jet in a Shallow Coastal Environment
  (8th International Conference on Estuarine and COastal Modeling 2003) (1243 kb ~PDF Format)

• Numerical Modeling Study of Cooling Water Recirculation
  (1551 kb ~PDF Format)
  

• Modeling Cooling Water Discharges from the Burrard Generating Station, BC Canada (Oceans 2002) (788 kb ~PDF file format)

• 3-D Computational Flow Modeling and High Resolution Flow Surveys for Fisheries Environmental Studies on the Upper Columbia River. (Hydro Vision 2002) (493 kb ~ PDF file format)

Advanced Technical Report Library

Look over the following report/paper titles and then indicate on the Technical Report Request Form which report(s)/paper(s) you would like to view. We will then email your selection to you as an attached PDF file. This service is free of charge and your email address and contact information will be kept confidential and only used by ASL to inform you of website/company updates.

Our library collection includes:

• 3-D Numerical Model of the Columbia River at Keenleyside Dam.

• Comparison of Turbine Discharge by Current meters and Acoustic Scintillation Flow Meter at Laforge-2 Power Plant.

• Comparison of Turbine Discharge by Current meters and Acoustic Scintillation Flow Meter at Fort Patrick Henry Power Plant.

• Measuring the Effect of Fish Diversion Screens on Turbine Efficiency with the Acoustic Scintillation Flow Meter at Unit 5, McNary Dam.

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These reports and brochures are stored in Adobe Acrobat® PDF format. You need the Acrobat® Reader (version 3.0 or later), available FREE at Adobe's web site, to view and print this file.

Also available for immediate download are the ASL Sonar Profiler Family brochures.

Brochure (104 kb ~ PDF file format ~ 2 pages)
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