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PhD Scholarship Opportunity

Are you a graduate scientist/engineer looking for a unique opportunity to develop AI technology for underwater acoustic applications? Check out this opportunity to undertake a funded PhD in New Zealand …

New SoundTrap ST600

We’re very excited to announce the release of the new SoundTrap ST600 series long term acoustic recorders! The ST600 is designed specifically for long term deployments – with up to 160 …

dBWav version 1.3

We’re excited to promote dBWav and announce the release of version 1.3 with additional features. dBWav is powerful and user-friendly acoustic analysis software developed by our friends at Marshall Day …

New SoundTrap Four Channel ST4300!

We’re very excited to announce the release of the SoundTrap ST4300 four channel acoustic recorder! We’ve managed to squeeze four synchronous audio channels into a device the size of a can of …

SoundTrap Click Detector!

Thanks to a collaboration between Ocean Instruments and the Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) at the University of St Andrews, SoundTrap now has detection capabilities that we think may well …

New SoundTrap 300 !!!

The much awaited SoundTrap 300 underwater acoustic recorder is now available for order! The latest SoundTrap builds on the success of the previous models with the following exciting new features: Up to 70 days battery life …

SoundTrap Software Update Available

We’ve just released new SoundTrap software (v1.2.x) in the downloads section. It has many cool new features and improvements, including: Temperature and accelerometer logging Two times faster USB offload  Power consumption …

Follow us on twitter!

We have lots of exciting news coming, so we’ve set up a twitter account to keep the masses ( 7 and counting…) posted. Follow @OceanInstrument to get the latest!

New SoundTrap 202HF

The SoundTrap 202HF is now available for purchase. It features a similar specification to the standard 202 model, but with 150 kHz bandwidth. With a super fast sample rate of up to 576 kS/s, it’s proving …

New SoundTrap 202!

The new SoundTrap 202 is available for purchase. Similar specification to the previous model, but with a double battery/data capacities. Record time is now up to two weeks continuous! Check out …

SUDAR Calibration Coupling

Here’s a pic of the SoundTraps low frequency calibration setup. SoundTraps factory calibration is performed using two methods. First a tank calibration is done using a sound source and a …