ASL Environmental Sciences
ASL Environmental Sciences has provided oceanographic services and instruments to a worldwide market since 1977. Clients include Canadian and US government departments and agencies, universities in North America, Europe and Japan, the offshore oil industry, hydroelectric power utilities, engineering firms, and the aquaculture industry.
ASL provides a full range of physical oceanographic consulting services including flow measurement, numerical modeling, wave measurement and analysis, sediment transport and ice studies. ASL has participated in numerous environmental studies and impact assessments often as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
The company manufactures a line of underwater acoustic instruments including the Ice Profiler – measures ice-keel depths; Acoustic Water Column Profiler – monitors the presence and location of zooplankton, fish, or sediments; and the IRIS – data logger for Imagenex 881A Sonar. ASL also provides custom instrument design and manufacturing. ASL engineering staff develops both the hardware and software for these systems. The company maintains a strong internal research and development program, supporting continuing innovation and improvement in its products and services.
ASL also has a large lease pool of oceanographic instruments with related mooring design, deployment services and data processing.
