See us at the 47th Larval fish conference in huron, ohio, may 12-16, 2024

St Petersburg, FL (March 2024) - OceanSpace staff will attend the 47th Larval Fish Conference (larvalfishconference.com), occupying a lobby booth and conducting demonstrations of our imaging system for interested attendees. Bring your sample of larval fish or other small aquatic organism(s) and we’ll run it through our imaging system. We look forward to meeting you at the conference.

Oceanspace continues on-site monitoring at Carlsbad CA desalination facility

St Petersburg, FL (October 2023) - OceanSpace has deployed their flow-through SAO Imager at the Poseidon desalination plant in Carlsbad, California. The system uses remote connectivity to allow operational control from our St. Petersburg headquarters. This Department of Interior funded project will continue at least through mid-2024 and is designed to verify the efficacy of feedwater monitoring for organism entrainment using the OceanSpace SAO Imager.

Oceanspace enters the market with their sao imager

St Petersburg, FL (October 2023) - As OceanSpace completes our DOE SBIR research and development project, our SAO Imager is now ready for the commercial market. As a testament to the interest in our product, and to its utility for a variety of environmental monitoring applications, we have received purchase commitments and inquiries from academia and consulting companies. As we expand our marketing efforts and fully develop our production capacity, we anticipate a steady expansion of sales and leasing opportunities.

Diversity supplement interns rewarded with full-time job opportunities

St Petersburg, FL (September 2023) - The two summer interns hired by OceanSpace under the DOE Diversity Supplement program have obtained full-time jobs in the environmental industry. Of particular note for OceanSpace, recent Eckerd College graduate Karsen Henwood (4.0 gpa) has been hired into a full-time position with OceanSpace to continue her sample validation work, assist with development of training libraries, beta test system performance, and further advance OceanSpace product marketing efforts. OceanSpace is excited to to have Karsen aboard and very appreciative of her contribution to diversifying our work force.

Dr. Arnold receives NOAA Bronze Medal

St. Petersburg, FL (October 2021) - Dr. William Arnold, CEO of OceanSpace LLC, has received the NOAA Bronze Medal for his work developing fisheries management plans and assessment methodologies in the U.S. Caribbean region. NOAA’s Bronze Medal is the highest honorary award given by the NOAA Undersecretary and reflects outstanding and significant contributions to increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the operating unit. Dr. Arnold recently retired from NOAA to fully focus on managing aquatic ecosystems through OceanSpace LLC.

OceanSpace receives DOE STTR Grant

St. Petersburg, FL (September 2021) - OceanSpace LLC has been awarded a Department of Energy (DOE) SBIR/STTR Phase II grant to continue project #DE-SC0020881; “Advancing optical imaging and classification to enhance biodiversity monitoring”. Dr. William Arnold, Founder and CEO, said “OceanSpace is very pleased to receive this follow-on award, a testament to the validity and commercial potential of our image acquisition and classification system. We are honored to be selected to contribute to the field of Bioenergy by developing instrumentation for monitoring biodiversity in adjacent aquatic ecosystems”. A key component of the OceanSpace funding proposal was the commercialization plan, which reflects the continued work of OceanSpace staff to tackle the challenges involved in getting scientific sensors from the benchtop, across the development “Death Valley”, and into the commercial market.

The $1.12 million project continues a successful collaboration between OceanSpace and Baylor University’s Department of Environmental Science, who will focus on developing sampling methodologies to integrate with the OceanSpace optical imaging system.

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