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ASL Environmental Sciences is a world class company with over 40 years of experience in oceanographic, acoustic, equipment leasing, remote sensing, ice research products and scientific consulting services. Our products include the well-known, industry standard Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler (AZFP) deployed in hundreds of locations world-wide. We provide clients with consulting services including Flow Measurement, Numerical Modeling, Wave Measurement and Analysis, Sediment Transport and Ice Studies.

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SOFAR-AZFP-nano Smart Buoy

Real-time Kelp Farm Monitoring with Smart AZFP-nano Equipped Spotter Buoy

As a company, we aim to provide scientists and resource managers with accessible, low-cost, and effective tools for studying marine ecosystems. Through collaborations with clients and researchers, we’re often introduced to emerging technologies that support these goals. Recently, we partnered with SOFAR Ocean and the Bristlemouth initiative to develop a real-time echosounder smart mooring—our first demonstration of satellite-transmitted, condensed AZFP data. Built using the Bristlemouth protocol for rapid underwater data and power transmission, the system is designed to be scalable.

To test the concept, we deployed the smart mooring at a kelp farm in Barkley Sound, operated by Tom Campbell of West Coast Kelp.

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ASL Environmental Sciences Announces Winner of 2025 Early Career Scientist Award

ASL Environmental Sciences Inc. is proud to announce Dr. Macarena Díaz-Astudillo as the recipient of the 2025 Early Career Scientist Award. Dr. Díaz-Astudillo’s innovative research proposal titled “Understanding the drivers of zooplankton layers and aggregations over two contrasting submarine canyons” was selected
based on her well-organized research objectives, her previous knowledge and experience of using
hydroacoustics and her careful considerations to carry out both the field and analytical elements of this study.

The award grants Dr. Díaz-Astudillo the use of ASL’s new Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler AZFP-nano for a three-month period, along with full technical and analytical support from ASL’s expert team.

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ASL Environmental Sciences Partners with PRODIGY to Support the Next Generation of Oceanographers

ASL’s Biological Oceanographer, Dr. Julek Chawarski, recently joined the University of British Columbia’s PRODIGY (Pacific Rim Ocean Data Mobilization and Technology) field school in Chilean Patagonia, supporting coastal oceanography and emerging technologies. Held at the San Ignacio del Huinay Foundation field station in Comau Fjord, the program brought together Canadian and Chilean graduate students to explore remote fjord ecosystems.

The trip began in Puerto Montt at the University of Los Lagos, where students learned about hyperspectral remote sensing with drones to detect harmful algae blooms. The group then traveled to Comau Fjord region to assemble oceanographic instruments and attend lectures on mooring design.

AZFP-nano Early Career Scientist Contest

ASL's 2025 Award Early Career Scientist Contest

ASL invites applications for the 2025 Early Career Scientist Award to win the use of the new AZFP-nano autonomous acoustic profiler for three months.
The goal of this program is to support early career trainees in the oceanographic and limnological research community by lending, free of charge, a calibrated battery-powered Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler™ (AZFP™)-nano with a 200 kHz single beam transducer for a three-month period along with the technical and analytical support from ASL’s team of experts. This instrument loan program is open to early career scientists and engineers, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and others involved in aquatic research. The AZFP-nano is a newly developed, autonomous instrument that can gather backscatter data for scientists on a budget.

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AQFlow

Innovative Solutions for Flow Measurements in Hydroelectric Plants

Remote Sensing

ASL Remote Sensing

We have been providing consulting services and contract research and development in airborne and satellite remote sensing since 1983.

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We acknowledge and respect the Coast Salish and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples and their historical and present-day relationships with the land and waters that ASL operates within today.

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