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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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ASL's Partnership With Open Ocean Robotics

ASL Environmental Sciences is pleased to announce a new collaboration with Open Ocean Robotics, as part of the Air-Sea Ocean Monitoring System (ASOMS) project partially funded by Canada’s Ocean Supercluster. As part of this joint effort, ASL’s Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler (AZFP) is being integrated into Open Ocean Robotics’ solar-powered surface vehicles to explore new possibilities in autonomous ocean monitoring.

Combining ASL's AZFP with Open Ocean Robotics' innovative uncrewed platforms demonstrates a more efficient, environmentally friendly, and safer approach to collecting oceanographic data in diverse and remote marine environments.

DeCAF

ASL’s New Satellite Monitoring Service: DeCAF

ASL Environmental Sciences is proud to announce our new wide area satellite monitoring service called DeCAF, for Detection and Classification of Anomalous Features. DeCAF is a turnkey wide area monitoring service based on detecting and classifying changes in satellite imagery.

We are pleased to offer both:
Historical landscape change analysis (since 1984);
Continuous monitoring and alerting.

DeCAF uses advanced Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI) techniques to process free and/or commercial satellite data and find changes to the landscape.

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.

Humfrey Melling

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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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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