In September we welcomed many of our distributors from around the world to our new office for training. It was an exciting 3 days filled with lots of information about our newest products. We capped off the week with a fun-filled trip to Alcatraz Island and an evening in San Francisco.
Exploratorium in San Francisco recently held an open house highlighting new experiences that immerse their visitors in the bay & ocean environment. Turner Designs participated in the event by demonstrating and explaining how fluorescence works in an effort to help people understand the basic principles behind our new C6P Submersible Fluorometers, which will be deployed off an Explorato ...
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Introducing several new products last year is making this year particularly busy for everyone at Turner Designs. Our C-sense pCO2 sensor is getting a great reception from customers while our partners expand options for integration. Our red chlorophyll sensor is deployed at several sites and we should have good data sets to share soon. Ballast-Check 2, our Handheld PAM Fluorometer, will soon be w ...
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Turner Designs is excited to announce our new distributor in Germany, terra4. Representing complementary products for over 8 years, terra4 is a valuable addition to our group of international distributors. Welcome aboard!
Here's a fun story about Turner Designs founder, George Turner:
George went to Charleston High School. After school he would search the alleys for “things of interest” that businesses had tossed in the trash. He would glean mechanical and electrical items and take them home to his workshop in his Dad’s garage. He put on his roller skates and tucked the items under one arm and with the ...
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The ALS Ice Bucket challenge is nothing new but our president, Jim Crawford, added a nice touch when his name was called. Jim offered to donate an additional $10 per employee who chose to implement his torture. Needless to say, quite a few employees joined the fun and Jim ended up donating $200. Even though it was a beautiful California afternoon, Jim found the experience to be uncomfo ...
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Turner Designs recently developed an in vivo chlorophyll sensor that uses a red excitation light source to elicit a fluorescence response from algae. This sensor is ideal for environments rich in Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) and blue-green algae. DOM has long been known to interfere with blue excitation fluorometry, minimizing accuracy of chlorophyll concentration and algal abund ...
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Congratulations to Corinne Gibble (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Jessica Corman (Arizona State University) on their Travel Stipend Awards for their presentations at last week's Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting in Portland. View their presentations at http://www.turnerdesigns.com/research-awards/student-travel-stipends/travel-stipend-recipients
Last week our VP of Marketing & Sales, Pam Mayerfeld, had the opportunity to swim with a Liquid Robotics' Wave Glider in the beautiful waters of Hawaii. Pam said it was an amazing experience and gave her even greater appreciation for the Wave Glider's technology. >>Learn more about Liquid Robotics
Turner Designs hit the ground running in 2014 with several new product announcements at the top of our to-do list. We officially released ICAM, our Integrating Cavity Absorption Meter developed in conjunction with Texas A&M University. It’s been a long time coming and we appreciate all the interest expressed by customers over the years. We hope you will all agree it’s been worth the wait. In F ...
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Next week we'll be exhibiting at both Ocean Sciences Meeting, in booth #22, and the Ballast Water Management Summit. If you are attending please stop by and say hello and we'll tell you more about our exciting new products!
We'll be exhibiting at AGU in booth #1236, December 9-13, 2013 in San Francisco, CA. We'll also be exhibiting at the Ballast Water Management Technology Conference at Congress Centre in London, December 11-12, 2013. When registering for the Ballast Water Management Technology Conference quote VIP Code: FKT2543TDWL to receive a 25% discount.
Summer is drawing to an end in the northern hemisphere and looking back on the year so far, it’s encouraging to see that water quality and environmental monitoring continue to be focal points for research around the world. Data provided by these efforts are critical to our quality of life. Turner Designs has been dedicated to supporting the scientific community for over 40 years and this year ha ...
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If visiting San Francisco be sure to stop by the new Exploratorium at Pier 15 to see Turner Designs’ fluorometers in action. After more than 40 years in the Presidio, The Exploratorium recently relocated to brand new facilities and took the opportunity to add many new exhibits offering hands-on learning experiences. One of those exhibits, the Wired Pier, includes weather, air quality, an ...
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Another 6 months have flown by and it’s time to touch base with you, our wonderful customers. It’s always amazing how quickly time passes and a challenge to pick the highlights to tell you. Posting news on our Web pages, Facebook & Twitter reaches many of you, but for others our newsletter is when you hear our updates. Hopefully you’ll find the news we’re sharing to be useful. We like ...
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Copper is highly effective for minimizing bio-fouling of substrates. Turner Designs now offers Antifouling Copper Tape pieces designed for optimal coverage of our C3 Submersible Fluorometer optical heads to reduce bio-fouling on and around the sensors. The combination of the antifouling copper tape used together with our 3-brush mechanical wiper provides the most efficient reduction in ...
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We now have UV Solid Secondary Standards for our C3 Submersible Fluorometers. Instrumentation configured for UV analyses typically rely on the use of liquid standards, such as Quinine Sulfate, for ensuring instrument integrity. However, transporting and preparing liquid standards can be tedious and sometimes hazardous. The UV Solid Secondary Standard is compact, light weight, and safe to use ...
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Whether you’re involved with a dye, algal, or coastal contamination study, data mapping is a powerful way to present and analyze your data. Quick and efficient visual indications of fluorescence, position and depth enable researchers to make real-time adjustments allowing for more precise, focused field-work and data collection. In order to facilitate real-time data collection, Turner Designs re ...
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Turner Designs is celebrating our 40th anniversary on February 18, 2012. We feel proud knowing we continue to offer great instruments and supportive service to a wonderful customer base after 40 years of business. Thank you to all our customers for keeping us strong after all these years together.
We're happy to announce that we will continue to offer free ground shipping on all orders >$500 within the continental US through 2012.
Turner Designs is excited to announce we are now granting travel stipend awards to students who present a paper or poster referencing their use of Turner Designs equipment. This opportunity is separate from our instrument donation program which will continue to award AquaFluor Handheld Fluorometer/Turbidimeters biannually in July and December.
C-FINS (Fluorometric Integrated Nautical Mapping System), integrating the C3 Submersible Fluorometer’s digital output with GPS data for data mapping. A simple software module enables C-FINS and ArcGIS® to work together allowing for real-time mapping of fluorescence, temperature, depth, and turbidity. The ability to capture and integrate these data reliably using the C-FINS package is an excitin ...
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Turner Designs now offers Deep UV Optical sensors for detection of Refined Fuels and Oils. Recent developments in LED technology allow for excitation wavelengths down to 260nm. Using BTEX as the standard, the sensors are able to detect as low as 0.1ppm and have a dynamic range of 0 -2500 ppm. Both the Cyclops-7 and C3 Submersible Fluorometers can be purchased with Deep UV optics offering some of t ...
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We're offering FREE ground shipping and handling on all orders >$500 shipping within the continental US though 2010. Request a quote
We’ll be posting new product announcements and hope to see lots of comments from all our friends. We included a museum of instrumentation showing 38 years of our fluorometers in use -- please upload your photos showing our instruments in action. Under Discussions, we encourage your input on additional applications or future instrumentation you’d like us to provide. Please find us on Facebook t ...
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Turner Designs now offers a Deep UV Optical Kit for their C3 Submersible Fluorometer which enables detection of Refined Oils and Fuels. Recent developments in LED technology allow for excitation wavelengths down to 260nm. Using BTEX as the standard, the C3 is able to detect as low as 0.1ppm over a dynamic range >2500ppm.
The C3 Submersible Fluorometer is designed to incorporate up to three opt ...
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The Turner Designs C3 Submersible Fluorometer is now available with an Analog Output Adapter which outputs a 0-5 VDC signal for 1, 2, or 3 channels depending on the C3 configuration. The adapter enables integration with CTDs or any dataloggers that accept a 0-5 VDC signal. It plugs directly into the C3 and is securely held in place by the battery bracket. The C-Soft Windows-based user interface al ...
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