 Alan Hails
Title: Instrumentation Systems Engineer
Phone: 941-388-4441 ext. 307
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Alan joined the Phytoplankton Ecology Program in February 2007 as an Oceanographic Instrumentation Engineer. Much of his work is applied to the design of and manufacturing systems development for the Optical Phytoplankton Discriminator (OPD) — instrumentation used to detect and measure Florida's red tide and other micro-algae. Recently this work has expanded to include improved OPD instruments, new designs of mobile toxin detection and collection instruments, and a Bycatch Friendly Electronic Fishing Buoy.
Alan also designs, programs and operates many of the ocean platforms used to deploy instruments including buoys, the Slocum Glider Autonomous Underwater Vehicles and the data telemetry shore stations and vessel systems.
With his prior career experience in the development of medical, marine and industrial electronic products, Alan is interested in pursuing the commercialization of technologies developed at Mote Marine Laboratory. Education B.S. Mechanical Engineering, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD Awards
- Co-Inventor, Blood Pressure Monitor Console, U.S. Patent D340,769; for Johnson & Johnson Medical, Inc
- Principal Investigator, US Army Dev. Contract for Standalone Patient Simulator, for Medical education Technologies, Inc.
- U.S. Navy SBIR grant for Chip-On-Board Electronics Packaging research, Design Circuits, Inc
- Co-Inventor, Bycatch Friendly Fishing Buoy, U.S. Patent Number 8,033,044 B2 for Mote Marine Laboratory, Inc.
Publications A. Hails, C. Boyes, A. Boyes, R.D. Currier, K. Henderson, A. Kotlewski and G.J. Kirkpatrick, 2009. The Optical Phytoplankton Discriminator. Oceans 2009 MTS/IEEE Biloxi.
R. D. Currier, C. Boyes, A. Hails, K. Nierenberg, B. Kirkpatrick and G. Kirkpatrick
An Ocean Observing System for Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Tracking. Oceans 2009 MTS/IEEE Biloxi.
Gary Kirkpatrick, Robert Currier, Cory Boyes, Jim Hillier, Alan Hails, Mike Miller, Augie Kotlewski, Karl Henderson and Brad Pederson. The Optical-Based Hab Detection Observatory: Lessons Learned During 4 Years Of Implementation. Fourth Symposium on Harmful algae in the U.S., October, 2007.
Department: Directorate of Environmental Health & Ocean Technology
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