Business Ethics
More than ten years ago I worked as a lab manager for a biotech company. My job responsibilities were diverse and part of it included acting as an intermediary between the CEO and CFO of the company with the employees. As it happens in many compa…
New Product: 4-20 mA Output Pyranometer (SP-214)
Solar radiation is usually measured in agricultural, ecological and hydrological studies. The need for power conservation has increased the use of pyranometers in industrial and energy applications, such as solar power and building monitoring. Thes…
A Brief Review of Temperature Measurements
The properties of materials and nearly all biological, chemical, and physical processes are temperature dependent. As a result, temperature is perhaps the most widely measured environmental variable, and there are multiple sensors, or thermometers, a…
Protecting Your IRR from Spiders
When making measurements and carrying out experiments, scientists tend to spend a great deal of time and care in selecting the right instruments, calculating uncertainty, and making sure conditions are acceptable. One of the last things on the minds…
How to Make a Weatherproof Cable Splice
As anyone involved in the field installation of sensors can confirm, there are times when a diversion from the original plan must be followed. In many instances a sensor’s cable length can be a direct cause or effect of this diversion. In an ideal wo…