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MTR100Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands Carretera de Taliarte. s/n Telde, Las Palmas, Spain 35200 Tel: +34 928 134414 Email: [email protected]: www.plocan.eu/en CEO/President: Dr. Octavio Llinas Vice President Dr. Joaquin Hernandez-Brito Number of Employees:35 The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Is-lands -PLOCAN- is a public consortium facility engaged to promote science and technology developments in the marine and maritime sectors through a cost-effective and sustainable multipurpose services combination as ocean observa- tory, test site, underwater vehicles base, highly specialized training and innova- tion hub. The Tech: The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Is-lands -PLOCAN- is a public consortium facility engaged to promote science and technology developments in the marine and maritime sectors through a cost-effective and sustainable multipurpose services combination as coastal and deep-ocean observatory, test site, under- water vehicles base, highly specialized training and innovation hub. PLOCAN?s main goal is to make available in an ef-  cient and sustainable way all those necessary infrastructures and equip-ment, enable to provide the permanent service and support required for multi-disciplinary technological development related to marine and maritime tech-nologies, as well as the multipurpose operation thereof, generating national and international synergistic coopera- tion scenarios with technology-based companies and institutions.OceanScience2245 Camino Vida Roble, Suite 100 Carlsbad, Calif., U.S. 92011 Tel: 760-754-2400 Email: [email protected]: www.oceanscience.com CEO/President: Ron George Vice President: Tricia Takacs General Manager: Mike Wilson Engineering Director: Ron George Number of Employees: 26 Annual Sales: $7,000,000.00This year represents The Oceanscience Group?s 15th year serving the oceano- graphic, hydrographic and hydrologic industries across the globe. The compa- ny is growing rapidly causing the need to again move to larger facilities after only four years at the current location.The Company:Since 1998, Oceanscience has devel- oped and manufactured oceanogrpahic, hydrgraphic and hydrologic  eld equip- ment and instrumentation for corpora-tions, major government agencies and institutions in more than 50 countries. One third of the staff are either ocean scientists or mechanical, robotics, or ocean engineers. Oceanscience focuses on building collaborative relationships with its customers, industry partners and representatives around the globe and placing an emphasis on customer sat-isfaction. Oceanscience manufactures a wide range of integrated systems for measuring and monitoring the world?s waterways, from the deep ocean and coastal waters to rivers, lakes and ponds. The Tech:  Remotely-Operated Hydrographic Survey Boats : The new Oceanscience Z-Boats offer a portable, fully integrated ready-to-use bathymetric survey solu- tion for shallow waters. There?s no need to mobilize a manned boat for a survey area or to complete time consuming ad-ministrative procedures before survey- ing hazardous waters. Instead simply launch the remotely-operated Z-Boat and start surveying. The Z-Boat depth sounder and GPS are integrated with an RF data link that lets the operator moni-tor the boat track in real time on a lap-top.  Environmental Monitoring Deploy- ment Systems: Its sea oor and surface buoy-mounted platforms for acoustic Doppler current pro lers and other in- struments lead the industry in ease-of-use, reliability and ruggedness. The Sea Spider and Barnacle bottom mounts and Clamparatus buoy-of-opportunity mounts are used by major oceanograph-ic institutions and government agencies around the world.  River Discharge Boats for ADCP?s: Oceanscience has shipped more than 4500 unmanned boats for a wide variety of fresh and saltwater applications. The Riverboat/ADCP system has signi -cantly reduced discharge measurement time and labor all over the world. Flows up to 6m/s are handled with ease and available communications options com- plete the discharge monitoring package. July/August 2013 16 MTRMTR #6 (1-17).indd 16MTR #6 (1-17).indd 167/19/2013 10:31:35 AM7/19/2013 10:31:35 AM