Company Profile

Western Environmental Technology Laboratories, Inc., doing business as Wet Labs, Inc., develops and manufactures underwater instrumentation to detect biological, chemical, and geological parameters and processes of the earth's oceans, lakes, and streams. It offers fluorometers, which includes fluorometer-turbidity sensors and custom three-parameter fluorescence/scattering meters, as well as open path and flow-through fluorometers for measuring chlorophyll, CDOM, rhodamine, and phycoerythrin fluorescence; and water quality monitors for measuring temperature, dissolved oxygen, and chlorophyll fluorescence. It also provides absorption and beam attenuation meters, including hyperspectral absorption and attenuation meters; multi-spectral absorption and attenuation meters; and data handlers, a sensor interface module for the collection, storage, and merging of analog and digital data from up to eight instruments in profile and moored modes. In addition, it offers turbidity and scattering meters, including single-angle backscattering meters, turbidity sensors, three-wavelength backscattering meters, combination chlorophyll fluorometer-turbidity sensors, and custom three-parameter scattering meters; and optional equipment, which include pumps, cables, and flow sensors. Its products are used in primary productivity studies, coastal and estuarine research and monitoring, ocean observing systems, towed and autonomous underwater vehicles, radiative transfer studies, water quality monitoring, climate change, harmful algal blooms, thin layers, visibility, calibration-validation activities, ocean carbon studies, and nutrient studies. The company was founded in 1992 and is based in Philomath, Oregon. As of February 2, 2010, Western Environmental Technology Laboratories, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Sea-Bird Electronics, Inc.