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  • AGO Environmental Electronics Ltd. - Designers and manufacturers of geophysics and oceanographics equipment including portable electric winches, oceanographic instruments and geophysics survey tools.
  • AML Oceanographic - Supplies CTDs and sound velocimeters to military and civilian customers working in the fields of oceanography and hydrography.
  • ASL Environmental Sciences - Scientific consultants with over 30 years experience in oceanographic, acoustic and ice research services. Services include Flow Measurement, Numerical Modeling, Wave Measurement & Analysis, Remote Sensing, Sediment Transport and Ice Studies.
  • AXYS Technologies - Canadian company who design, manufacture and install remote environmental monitoring systems worldwide. They specialise in marine, freshwater, land-based monitoring stations and offshore wind resource assessment systems that measure aquatic, oceanic and atmospheric parameters.
  • Amphibico - Manufacturer of underwater imaging technology.
  • Aquatec Electronics Ltd. - Provide data logging and acquisition tools, instrumentation, acoustic telemetry systems and software to the marine, fisheries, oil and offshore industries.
  • Aquatic Research Instruments - Manufactures mechanically-operated sampling instruments and laboratory equipment for collecting water, sediments and plankton from virtually any aquatic environment.
  • BioSonics - An engineering, manufacturing and consulting firm offering hydroacoustic solutions for monitoring and assessing aquatic biological and physical resources.
  • Biospherical Instruments - Research-oriented company founded to design and manufacture scientific instrumentation for environmental monitoring. The company also has a long involvement with environmental monitoring, from the Antarctic and Arctic to municipal drinking water reservoirs.
  • Brightwaters Instrument Corporation - Manufactures GPS/DGPS and Argos drifting buoys, environmental telemetry systems, hydrographic instruments, equipment relocation products. Offers custom and semi-custom work and OEM design services.
  • Campbell Scientific - Designers and manufacturers of dataloggers, sensors, telemetry and software systems for long-term monitoring and control.
  • Cetacean Research Technology - Specialises in providing hydrophones and underwater acoustic instrumentation tailored for the applications of scientists, engineers, recording artists, and recreational enthusiasts.
  • Chelsea Technologies Group - Designs and manufactures a range of sensors and systems for the marine, environmental, defence, homeland security, industrial process control and life science markets.
  • Civil Tek - Designs and manufactures pressure sensor wave gages for coastal and ocean engineering using techniques and features proven over years of successful field experience.
  • Clydeside Surveys Limited - Specialist hydrographic surveyors, including bathymetric, side scan sonar, shallow seismic and general oceanographic around the globe.
  • Coastal Leasing - Manufactures, leases and sells oceanographic, environmental and meteorological instrumentation for scientific research worldwide.
  • Coastline Surveys Ltd - An independent marine data acquisition, interpretation and consultancy service worldwide from operating bases in the UK. Undertakes bathymetric and seismic surveys, water and seabed sampling.
  • CodaOctopus Ltd. - Provider of underwater technology for imaging and mapping the seabed including inertial attitude and positioning, sub-bottom profiling and sidescan sonar imaging instruments.
  • CytoBuoy - Dutch company with over 25 years experience in manufacturing particle analysis instruments and software for researchers in aquatic science and other disciplines.
  • DeepSea Power & Light - Manufacturer of oceanographic equipment specialising in underwater lighting and cameras. Also produces batteries, lasers, temperature sensors and pressure housing design software.
  • Del Norte Technology Ltd - Involved in a wide range of hydrographic systems and products, DGPS systems, echo-sounders, tide gauges and the Coastal Oceanographics Hypack software product.
  • Desert Star Systems - Manufactures acoustic and GPS integrated positioning systems, underwater cameras and underwater data acquisition and telemetry systems for oceanographic applications.
  • EIVA Marine Survey Solutions - Over 30 years experience providing software, products, integrated system solutions and services for application within the offshore and marine survey industry, with specialisms in software development, electronics, mechanical engineering and marine survey.
  • EPC Labs - Manufactures and sells thermal graphic recorders and data acquisition systems for use in a wide variety of custom applications including side-scan sonar, sub-bottom profiling and spectrum and acoustic analysis.
  • Echoview - Software for visualization and analysis of multiple frequency and multibeam/sonar hydroacoustic data for fish stock assessment. Sold by Myriax Software, Tasmania, Australia.
  • EdgeTech - Develops, manufactures and markets sensing devices for marine applications including sonar systems for underwater, sea floor and object imaging and sub-bottom profiling, as well as communication and control products for underwater devices.
  • Environmental Sensors Inc. - Distributes over 50 world-renowned marine instrumentation products from seven international suppliers. ESI also provides specialised systems for custom orders throughout North America.
  • Falmouth Scientific - Manufacturer of precision instrumentation for oceanographic applications, based in Massachusetts, USA.
  • Fiomarine - Manufacturer of equipment for securing and retrieving underwater instruments and equipment in the marine research, oil & gas, defence and fishing & aquaculture industries.
  • Flotation Technologies - Designer and manufacturer of subsurface buoyancy and mooring products for the oceanographic, seismic, military and offshore industries.
  • Force Technology Denmark - A knowledge and technology based service provider which offers development, consultancy and other services in, among other things, marine technology.
  • Fugro GEOS - Worldwide metocean measurement, consultancy and forecasting services.
  • Fugro OCEANOR - Technology company specialising in the design, manufacture, technological development, installation and support of private and public sector environmental monitoring, ocean observing and forecasting systems.
  • General Oceanics - Engineering and manufacture oceanographic, coastal, freshwater and air sampling and analysis products, and the provision of services for analysis and research work.
  • GeoSpectrum Technologies - Specialist in underwater acoustic transducers - produce hydrophones, sources, and acoustic sub-systems. Also provide bespoke products and design and consulting services.
  • Gisman - French company specialising in coastal and harbour aids to navigation, including marine buoys for collection, transmission and processing of operational and environmental data.
  • Hydro Force Technologies - Norwegian designer and manufacturer of hydrodynamically-designed towed bodies for use in defence, research, offshore and seismic activities.
  • Hydro-Optics, Biology & Instrumentation Laboratories - HOBI Labs offers a range of scientific-grade instruments for measuring water optical properties and the spectral light field. Specialises in optical oceanography and hydro-optical instrumentation for the marine science community.
  • Hydrographic Surveys Limited - Irish company offering a wide range of environmental and hydrographic services to industry, ports and local authorities.
  • INTECSEA - Offshore project management company specialising in floating systems, offshore pipelines and subsea production systems.
  • Idronaut - Design, manufacturing and support of high-performance oceanographic sensors and instrumentation, with particular attention to multi-parameter CTD probes.
  • Innova - Scandinavian supplier of underwater equipment and services for ROV, subsea intervention and oceanographic research.
  • Insite Pacific - A manufacturer and supplier of a range of advanced underwater video systems capable of operating to full ocean depth.
  • InterOcean Systems - Design and manufacture oceanographic and environmental equipment and systems. Products include current meters, wave & tide gauges, metoc buoys, acoustic releases, winches, hydrophones and remote oil spill detection.
  • International Industries - Manufacturers' representative and distributor based in Annapolis, Maryland, USA. Lease products from domestic and international hydrographic and oceanographic firms in the marine technology industry.
  • Jenifer Clark's Gulfstream - Real-time ocean charts and weather forecasts for sailboat racing, boat deliveries, ocean cruising and offshore fishing, using infrared imagery, satellite altimetry data and surface isotherm data.
  • KC Denmark - Supplies all types of field and laboratory research equipment for limnology, oceanography and hydrobiology.
  • Kongsberg Maritime - Provides harsh environment underwater imaging technology and marine CCTV systems to the energy, science, maritime and military sectors.
  • L-3 Klein Associates - Supplier of side scan sonar equipment, integrated bridge systems, navigation products and waterside security and surveillance systems.
  • Lockheed Martin Sippican - Military equipment manufacturer who produce expendable oceanographic and meteorological instrumentation and associated data acquisition systems.
  • Marimatech - Danish manufacturers of marine surveying and monitoring instrumentation.
  • Marine Electronics - Manufacturer of altimeters, sonars, acoustic releases and telemetry systems. Based in Guernsey.
  • Marine Magnetics Corporation - Specialises in the design and manufacture of oceanographic magnetic exploration equipment including marine magnetometers and gradiometers.
  • Marine Sonic Technology - Produces a low cost side scan sonar system called Sea Scan PC, which offers the ability to locate objects underwater with near photographic quality.
  • MarineFIND - Marine Mapping Intelligence - A comprehensive marine data portal that provides a wide range of chart, bathymetric, metocean, geological and offshore infrastructure data. Datasets cover both domestic and international waters. Data can be provided in a wide range of desktop and web based formats.
  • Marschall Acoustics Group - Design, manufacture and supply geophysical imaging equipment, hydrophones, towed hydrophone arrays, downhole arrays, sonars, ocean CTD profilers and other hydrographic equipment.
  • McLane Research Laboratories - Manufacturers of time-series oceanographic and environmental monitoring instrumentation. Also provide design services.
  • McMillan Design - Small, privately owned, multi-disciplinary design company located in Gig Harbor, Washington. Manufactures and markets the Sea Catch mechanical toggle quick release.
  • MetOcean Data Systems - Designs and manufactures drifting buoys, environmental platforms, systems for oceanographic and meteorological data acquisition and telemetry systems for severe environments.
  • Mooring Systems - Designs and fabricates oceanographic surface and subsurface buoys and trawl-resistant bottom mounts. Provides all mooring components including wire rope and marine hardware for shallow and deep sea systems.
  • NightSea - Develops and manufactures underwater fluorescence lighting systems.
  • Nortek - Suppliers of acoustic instruments for measuring water motion, software for real-time operation in the field or lab and analysis software for visualisation, presentation and reports.
  • ODIM Brooke Ocean - Part of the Rolls Royce group, providing hardware, systems engineering and R&D services to the marine science, naval and oil & gas sectors. They specialise in developing equipment and systems to operate in harsh marine environments.
  • Ocean Data View (ODV) - Software package for the interactive exploration, analysis and visualisation of oceanographic and other geo-referenced profile, time-series, trajectory or sequence data. Runs on Windows or Linux.
  • Ocean Innovations - Represents some of the leading manufacturers of underwater equipment and marine technology.
  • Ocean Instruments - Design and manufacture of marine biological and geological sampling equipment including multi corers, box corers and bongo nets.
  • Ocean Optics - Manufactures miniature fibre optic spectrometers, chemical sensors, precision filters and other optical components using integrated photonics technologies.
  • Ocean Scientific International Ltd (OSIL) - Supply measuring instruments and systems for collecting environmental data. These include: multi-parameter sondes, CTDs, SVs, ADCPs, ADVs, corers, acoustic releases, ROVs, salinometers and meteorological equipment. Marine systems include: data buoys, underwater tow vehicles and seabed mounting frames.
  • Ocean Sensors - Specialises in the development of ocean measurement instrumentation and systems. Developers of lightweight CTD instruments for use in ocean profiling as well as moored and shipboard data logging applications.
  • OceanMetriX Ltd - Provides independent oceanographic and meteorological consultancy and statistical services to governments and industry worldwide.
  • OceanTools Ltd - Products for the professional offshore ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) and survey markets including true north-seeking fibre optic gyro compass systems.
  • Oceanscan Limited - Company servicing the worldwide hydrographic survey and ROV sectors, providing rental equipment and personnel.
  • Oceanscience Group - Manufacture and sales of remotely-controlled and tethered instrumentation deployment boats for acoustic doppler current profilers, moving vessel profilers and seafloor platforms.
  • Oceanweather - A specialised consulting firm serving the coastal and ocean engineering communities, integrating several areas of expertise into specification of definitive design data on the physical environment.
  • Ohmex Ltd - Established in 2000, Ohmex is primarily a manufacturer of equipment involved in Environmental Science applications such as Environmental Data collection, Land and Hydrographic surveying systems.
  • Oktopus Mari Tech - Develops specialised instrumentation and gear for use in rivers, lakes, coastal waters and the deep sea in co-operation with universities, research organisations and governmental agencies.
  • Open Seas Instrumentation - Manufacture oceanographic equipment (net systems, ADCPs and sidescan tow systems) for the international scientific community.
  • Outland Technology - American company manufacturing remotely operated vehicles and a range of underwater video, lighting and power systems.
  • PREVCO Subsea Housings - Subsea engineering consultancy and manufacturer specialising in submersible pressure vessels, instrumentation housings, junction boxes, vent plugs, pressure relief valves and other accessories.
  • PRIMER-E - Company created by Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) employees to market and develop PRIMER, a multivariate statistics program for ecologists.
  • Pacific Gyre - Manufacturer of oceanographic equipment for remote environmental data collection, specialising in drifting, Lagrangian buoys, moorings and platforms that collect physical data about the open ocean, coastal waters and estuaries.
  • Pelago Data Acquisition Systems - Offers a range of modular oceanographic and meteorological Bluetooth data logging systems for the economical acquisition of remote data including modules for temperature, conductivity, pressure and wave profiling.
  • Penscil - Product development services, project consulting and writing for oceanographic instrumentation and underwater acoustics.
  • PiSYS Limited - Based in Aberdeen, Scotland. Specialises in the creation and delivery of specialist software products and services for simulation and HSEQ to the Energy Sector worldwide.
  • Precision Measurement Engineering - Design and manufacture products for field and laboratory research, ranging from antennas that transmit on the ARGOS frequencies, to microstructure profilers that measure conductivity, temperature, dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll and PAR.
  • Quester Tangent - Develops a suite of digital acoustic seabed classification products and services with a broad range of applications.
  • RBR - Manufactures precision instruments for oceanographic, freshwater, groundwater and cryospheric research. Products include submersible data loggers for CTD and other sensors, thermistor chains and capacitance wave gauges.
  • RESON Group - Offers complete sonar solutions including single-beam and multibeam echo data acquisition and presentation software, transducers, hydrophones and high-power ultrasonics for hydrographic surveys.
  • Royal Boskalis Westminster - A leading global services provider operating in the dredging and earthmoving, maritime infrastructure and maritime services sectors.
  • SAAB Seaeye - Specialises in the design and manufacture of electric-powered Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) systems for a wide range of professional applications.
  • Satlantic - Producer of advanced sensors and systems for environmental research and water quality monitoring.
  • Sea Sciences - Designs and manufactures portable, field-usable instrumentation for coastal and freshwater research. Main product line is based on the Acrobat, a versatile computer driven tow body.
  • Sea-Bird Electronics - Large manufacturer of marine instruments for measurement of salinity, temperature, pressure, dissolved oxygen, and related oceanographic variables. Major products include Conductivity/Temperature/Depth (CTD) profilers, multi-bottle in-situ water samplers, moored CT recorders and wave/tide recorders. Customers include research institutes, engineering firms and navies.
  • Sea-Gear Corporation - Manufactures a complete line of standard and custom plankton nets and accessories for marine biological/oceanographic research.
  • Sea-Image Corporation - Supplier of the WaMoS system, which measures ocean wave spectra and surface current speed and direction from the output of marine X-Band radar from shore, moored platform or moving vessel.
  • Sea-Witched Consultants - Experienced oceanographers overseeing marine surveys for the offshore, electrical, renewable energy, marine telecommunications and maritime dredging industries.
  • Seabed Technology - Manufacturer of marine sampling instrumentation including vibrocorers, box corers and grab samplers, tide gauges, sub-sea dataloggers and turbidity profilers. Design and manufacturing of cable assemblies and pressure housings.
  • Sediment Services - Geo-scientific instrumentation and services for marine sedimentary research.
  • Sensor Technology - Offers a broad range of piezoelectric products to various end users and designs and manufactures acoustic transducers and hydrophones for marine and oceanographic applications.
  • Sensoren Instrumente Systeme (SiS) - German company providing sensors, instruments and systems for marine science, metrology, environment, equipment calibration and engineering services.
  • Sequoia Scientific - Manufactures instrumentation and software for environmental monitoring and scientific research and carries out academic research associated with new instrument development and capabilities.
  • Sercel - Designs, manufactures and supports a full range of high-tech integrated equipment for hydrocarbon exploration in land, transition zone, ocean-bottom cable, marine, and down-hole environments.
  • Shark Marine Technologies - Manufactures and supplies remotely operated vehicles, camera systems and oceanographic equipment. Also provides consultant services and technical experience.
  • Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) - Manufacturers of remote intervention equipment, operating in hazardous environments worldwide, including a wide range of ROVs.
  • SonTek/YSI - Makes water velocity measurement sensors, ADCP/ADP acoustic doppler current profilers, ADV velocimeters, DVL speed logs, Argonaut current meters, ultrasonic flow meters and other instruments.
  • Sound Metrics - Manufacturers of Dual Frequency Identification Sonar (DIDSON), a lens-based sonar that creates near-photo-quality images with sound in turbid water where optical systems are ineffective.
  • Sound Ocean Systems - SOSI provides marine systems and components including marine winches, launch and recovery systems, tow fish and sea floor salvage systems.
  • Star-Oddi Marine Devices - Manufacturer of data loggers for ecosystem and animal studies. Products include submersible and implantable temperature loggers, sensors such as depth, salinity, tilt angle, light, humidity, acoustic and magnetic field strength.
  • TechWorks Marine - Irish provider of oceanographic equipment and services to a range of sectors including offshore renewable energy, coastal engineering, ports and harbours, oil and gas, aquaculture, water and utilities, academia, research and statutory monitoring.
  • Technicap - Produce marine sampling instrumentation including sediment traps, pumps, sampling bottles and buoys.
  • Teledyne Benthos Undersea Systems and Equipment - Teledyne Benthos is a leading provider of high technology products and integrated systems that are used for measurement, inspection, data collection and communication in remote and challenging marine environments.
  • Teledyne RD Instruments - Located in San Diego, California. Specialises in the design and manufacture of underwater acoustic doppler products for a wide array of current profiling and precision navigation applications.
  • Teledyne Webb Research - Manufacture ocean instrumentation - neutrally buoyant autonomous drifters and profilers, autonomous underwater gliding vehicles and moored underwater sound sources.
  • Tritech International - Large range of subsea technology products including profiling and imaging sonars, bathymetric systems, subsea inspection cameras, subsea lighting, acoustic and imaging sensors, excavation and jetting systems for the underwater ROV market.
  • Turner Designs - Specialise in providing fluorometers and luminometers for the measurement of measurement of genetic reporters, nucleic acids, fluorescent tracers, algal pigments and hydrocarbons in water.
  • Valeport - UK manufacturer of oceanographic and hydrometric instruments including current meters, wave, water level and tide recorders, sound velocity profilers, CTDs, multi-parameter instruments and accessories.
  • WET Labs - Develop and manufacture underwater instrumentation to detect biological, chemical and geological parameters.
  • Woods Hole Group - Woods Hole Group is an international environmental, scientific, and engineering consulting organisation headquartered in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
  • YSI Incorporated - Developer and manufacturer of sensors, instruments, software, and data collection platforms for environmental water quality monitoring and testing for the global biosystems market.
  • Yokota Manufacturing - Japanese company who manufacture seawater-resistant pumps, valves, flow regulators and other devices.

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