ASL invites applications for the 2025 Early Career Scientist Award to win the use of the new AZFP-nano autonomous acoustic profiler for three months.

The goal of this program is to support early-career trainees in the oceanographic and limnological research community by lending, free of charge, a calibrated battery-powered Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler (AZFP)-nano with a 200-kHz single-beam transducer for a three-month period, along with the technical and analytical support from ASL’s team of experts. This instrument loan program is open to early-career scientists and engineers, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and others involved in aquatic research. 

To apply, send a summary proposal (maximum length four pages, plus figures and references) for your study and how it would benefit from the use of the AZFP.

The selection criteria include: 

• Relevance of the project: The measurements obtained should advance the understanding of physical and/or biological phenomena of importance to the aquatic environment.

• Innovation, including scientific merit.

• An outline of the work plan to deploy and recover the instrument.

Proposals are due by March 30 to: jbuermans@aslenv.com. 

Learn about the AZFP-nano here.