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Covid-19 and Rockland

We would like to assure our Customers, Suppliers, and Partners of Rockland that we have implemented steps to keep our work force safe, while keeping our operations functioning at high productivity.  As of Monday, March 16, 2020, we have implemented a work-from-home policy and we are limiting the movements and contact points of those staff […]

Beyond Measurements: Observations to Parameterization of Vertical Mixing in Ocean Models

Hosted by IISc. Bangalore, the BOTS Workshop will provide instructional content and interactive tutorials on topics related to the processing, analysis an interpretation of microstructure turbulence data. The Bay of Bengal Boundary Layer Experiment (BoBBLE)will provide the context and sample data sets used in the tutorials. The BOTS workshop will also include presentations from Indian […]

Rockland Scientific Partners with Big Blue Ocean Cleanup to Offset Ocean Waste

Rockland is pleased to announce a corporate partnership with Big Blue Ocean Cleanup (BBOC), one of the world’s leading independent ocean cleanup non-profit foundations.  BBOC prevents and removes ocean pollution to minimise the effects of human development. At Ocean Business 2019, Rockland kicks off an annual donation pledge to BBOC. In April, Rockland transferred £20 […]

Ocean Business 2019 provides timely training opportunity for Rockland Scientific

SOUTHAMPTON, UK, April 16, 2019 – Ocean Business 2019 provided Rockland Scientific with the opportunity to deliver a timely and pertinent training session to the National Oceanography Centre.  Dr. Matthew Palmer, Chief Scientist at NOC Liverpool, leads a research expedition this June to Tanzania. Supported by NOC researcher Dr. Juliane Wihsgott, the team will carry […]

Rockland To Supply Three 6000m Rated Vertical Microstructure Turbulence Profilers to UK, Japan, Norway

SOUTHAMPTON, UK, April 09, 2019 – Rockland Scientific has been contracted to supply three VMP-6000 profilers to NOC Southampton (UK), the University of Tokyo (Japan) and the University of Bergen (Norway). The demand for such instrumentation highlights the increasing importance of deep-sea turbulence observations. Two VMP-6000s have already been delivered, while the third profiler will […]

VMP-250 Allows Danish Researchers to Observe how Turbulence and Vertical Mixing Affect Nutrient Flux Processes in Northeastern North Sea

Dr. Jørgen Bendtsen, ClimateLab Denmark., Professor Katherine Richardson, Centre for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen.   Deployment of the VMP-250 from the R/V Dana in the North Sea, July 2016. The instrument is deployed ~5 m from the free-drifting ship, and after it has been lowered to the […]

Ocean Turbulence Workshop in South Africa Lead by Rockland Microstructure Specialists

  “UKZN’s Department of Civil Engineering held the first ever workshop on Ocean Turbulence in South Africa. The workshop was facilitated by Derek Stretch, Professor for Environmental Fluid Mechanics, with funding provided through an Office of Naval Research (ONR) global grant. Turbulence at microstructure scales (a centimetre or less) is an important mechanism for mixing in the […]