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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="04e285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Chaplin Marine Instruments</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Chaplin Marine Instruments"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>About Us</B><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Products and Services"><U>Products and Services</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U>Contact Us</U></A></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="04dd2c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <IMG SRC="03bc0b90.jpg" border=0 width="192" height="185" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>R/V Endeavor</B></div> <div> <B>Courtesy of the University of Rhode Island - Graduate School of Oceanography</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>About Us</I></div> <div> CMI is located just outside of Boston, Massachusetts, near Cape Cod... an international center of ocean research activities.  The company consists of its president, Gerard Chaplin, and a team of on-call specialists in oceanographic instrument design, embedded systems programming and circuit board layout. </div> <div>      </div> <div> Gerry Chaplin has been involved with the ocean research community for over 25 years as a field engineer and instrument designer.  He has provided services to the following organizations:</div> <bR> <div>      Arthur D. Little Co.</div> <div>      Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution</div> <div>      Columbia University - Lamont-Dougherty Earth Observatory </div> <div>      Science Applications International Corporation</div> <div>      Sea Data Corporation</div> <div>      Pacer Systems Inc.</div> <div>      Woods Hole Group</div> <bR> <div> Gerry is currently designing instruments for the University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography (URI-GSO).  The TRAX-4 Software was initially developed (1994) and tested at URI-GSO and has been upgraded for retail sale by CMI.  Other software utilities and hardware devices, including a low -power acoustic modem and a tsunami detection & early-warning system are STILL in various stages of development and testing...  watch this site for new products! </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>