About Us

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.

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:

     Arthur D. Little Co.

     Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

     Columbia University - Lamont-Dougherty Earth Observatory

     Science Applications International Corporation

     Sea Data Corporation

     Pacer Systems Inc.

     Woods Hole Group

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!