Liquid Robotics PacX Challenge | Sea-Bird Europe Opening, and Open House and Training | Training | SBE 63 Optical DO Sensor | SBE 16 and 19 Trade-In Program | SBE 55 & 32 Change Notice | Product User Manuals | SBE 56 Temperature Logger | SBE 37 Pumped MicroCAT Change Notice | Student Equipment Loan Program | MicroCATs with Integrated Dissolved Oxygen | Customer Applications | Oil Spill Information Center | Customer Satisfaction Survey | Field Service Bulletins | Current Software | E-mail Subscription | Career Opportunities
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Liquid Robotics PacX Challenge
(January 2012)
On November 17th, 2011, Liquid Robotics launched four Wave
Gliders on a record-breaking journey. The Wave Gliders are traveling together
from San Francisco to Hawaii, and then taking separate routes across the
Pacific, two to Japan and two to Australia. On their journey, the Wave Gliders
will continuously transmit valuable data on salinity and water temperature,
waves, weather, fluorescence, and dissolved oxygen, collecting approximately
2.25 million discrete data points. Each Wave Glider is equipped with a Sea-Bird
Glider Payload CTD
with SBE 43F Dissolved Oxygen Sensor.
Follow the Wave Gliders and view the data at
http://data.liquidr.com.
Sea-Bird Europe Opening, and Open House and Training Class
(updated December 2011)
Sea-Bird Electronics, Inc is pleased to
announce the opening of our European
calibration and repair center. Located in Kempten,
Germany, Sea-Bird GmbH will offer our European customers the same high-quality
repair and calibration services that up until now have only been performed at
Sea-Bird Electronics’ headquarters facility in Bellevue, Washington, USA.
Sea-Bird Scientific will hold a
four-day training
session and open house at the European calibration and service center from 23 to 26 April 2012.
Training
(November 2011)
The next Sea-Bird training
class is scheduled for February 6 - 9, 2012.
New
SBE 63 Optical Dissolved Oxygen Sensor
(November 2011)
Sea-Bird is introducing the
SBE 63
Optical Dissolved Oxygen Sensor,
an individually calibrated, high-accuracy DO sensor.
SBE 16 and SBE 19 Trade-In Program
(August 2011, valid until March 31, 2012)
Trade in your SBE 16 or SBE 19 (produced
between 1987 and 2000), and receive a $1500.00 discount on the net price of a
new SBE 16plus V2 or SBE 19plus V2.
Click here for details.
SBE 55 and SBE 32 Change Notice
(July 2011)
A redesign of the latches on the SBE 55 ECO
Water Sampler and SBE 32 Carousel Water Sampler (32, 32C, and 32SC) is being
implemented, replacing the titanium side bars with plastic side bars. See the
Change Notice
for details.
Product User Manuals
(May 2011)
In an effort to reduce our impact on the
environment, Sea-Bird is not providing a printed User Manual (describing the use
of the instrument in detail) with shipments of new instruments. We are providing
a reference binder with the following printed material (varies, depending on the
instrument):
The complete User Manual is still available electronically on the CD that ships with the instrument. The CD contents remain unchanged, and include the complete User Manual (describing the use of the instrument in detail as well as including the materials in the reference binder), instrument configuration files for use with Sea-Bird software, Sea-Bird software, and a copy of the Sea-Bird website.
New
SBE 56 Temperature Logger
(April 2011)
Sea-Bird is introducing the
SBE 56
Temperature Logger, a low-cost,
high-accuracy temperature and time logger that samples at a user-programmed
interval ranging from 0.5 seconds to 9 hours.
SBE 37 Pumped MicroCAT Change Notice (March 2011)
A redesign of the pump, housing, electronics,
and battery pack is being implemented in SBE 37 Pumped MicroCATs (37-IMP,
37-SMP, 37-SIP). The redesign brings significant benefits without increasing the
price. Sea-Bird will ship these instruments starting in April 2011.
See the Change Notice
for details.
New
Student Equipment Loan Program
(September 2010)
WET Labs and Sea-Bird are soliciting
innovative proposals from outstanding graduate students for study of
environmental variables in oceans, estuaries, rivers, lakes, or laboratories.
Award recipients will receive loan of Sea-Bird and/or WET Labs equipment for up
to a one-year study period. Click here for more
details.
New
SBE 37 MicroCAT moored CTDs with Integrated Dissolved
Oxygen
(August 2010; link for 37-SIP-IDO added
December 2010)
Sea-Bird is introducing MicroCATs with
Integrated Dissolved Oxygen (IDO), joining more than 8000 MicroCATs deployed
worldwide since 1997. The MicroCAT-IDO measures Temperature, Conductivity,
Pressure (optional), and Dissolved Oxygen in a compact and economical package.
The DO sensor is based on our field-proven SBE 43; Adaptive Pump Control
calculates optimal pumping time for best DO accuracy. The MicroCAT-IDO is
available in each of our MicroCAT families:
37-SMP-IDO,
37-SIP-IDO, and
37-IMP-IDO.
Customer Applications
(July
2010)
Please share your knowledge with the oceanographic community by
providing information for posting on the Sea-Bird website -- see
Customer Applications
using Sea-Bird Instruments.
Oil Spill Information Center
(updated August 2010)
We have received a number of inquiries
regarding deploying Sea-Bird CTDs in the Gulf of Mexico for monitoring the oil
spill. The oil will not cause long-term damage to the CTD. If the oil
coats the inside of the conductivity cell and dissolved oxygen sensor membrane,
it can possibly affect the sensor's calibration (and thus affect the measurement and the
data). See our Oil
Spill Information Center for simple measures to minimize the ingestion of oil,
and to reduce the
impact on the calibration.
Customer Satisfaction Survey
(June
2010)
Do you have a few minutes to
help us improve our products and support? Go to
www.surveymonkey.com/s/Sea-Bird_Survey1
to take a short customer satisfaction survey.
Recent
Field Service Bulletins
- SBE
43, 43I, and 43F Dissolved Oxygen Sensors
(January 2012): Sensors manufactured or
serviced in 2011 may fail as a result of a seal failure.
- SBE 37
Pumped MicroCATs with Batteries (SMP, IMP) and SBE 44
(November 2011): May have shorter
deployment durations than previously predicted.
- SBE 3
Frequency Shift with SBE 25 CTD and Cold Temperature Applications
(June 2011): Power input below 11.5V may
produce a frequency shift.
- Click here for a complete
list of Field Service Bulletins.
Current Software
(changes in previous 2 months in red)
SeatermV2:
1.1f
Seaterm:
1.59
SeatermAF:
1.25
Deployment Endurance Calculator:
1.3
Seasave V7:
7.21f
SBE Data
Processing:
7.21f
Plot39:
1.00c
Seasoft for Waves:
2.0
E-mail Subscription
Form (July 2008)
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software updates, etc.
Career Opportunities
See Career
Opportunities for opening for a Senior Physical Oceanographer /
Instrumentation Scientist and a Customer Service Specialist.
For old announcements, see our Announcement Archive page.
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