ASA in the News
ASA in Recent News
June 2010
Beneath the Surface
Powerful computer simulations may be the best method available to quantify the amount of oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon - and to predict where it will go.
June 2010
Enlisted to Help in Gulf
A handful of New England companies have set up operations in the Gulf of Mexico, helping to deal with the massive oil spill there — guiding seaworthy data-collecting robots, measuring currents, and analyzing oil and water samples.
January 2010
Modeling to Solve Marine Mysteries
ASA, the environmental-modeling firm aggregates marine data, writes software and then uses it to model environmental impacts. Providence Business News' Chris Barrett illuminates ASA's company history and unique scienctific consulting services and technology solutions business after interviewing its founders.
September 2009
Wind Turbines Popping Up Left and Right: Proposal to build wind turbine at N. Kingstown High School, Feasibility Study by ASA
WPRI News' Pete Mangione visited ASA's offices to speak with ASA wind energy expert Daniel Mendelsohn to discuss details about the growing number of wind energy projects in Rhode Island and ASA's work involving wind energy analysis for the North Kingstown School Department.
September 2009
New York City Braces for Risk of Higher Seas
ASA provides flooding and inundation models to WSJ's Robert Lee Hotz reporting on how a possible rise in sea levels is putting New York at risk and what engineers are proposing to protect the populous city.
August 2009
ASA Makes the List of Top 100 Marine Technology Companies for Third Consecutive Year
Gregory Trauthwein, MTR's associate publisher and editor forwarded the issue, "The MTR100 is not necessarily the definitive guide to teh largest, the most profitable, or the most well-known companies. It is a celebration and showcase of the diversity of companies--large and small; near and far--the companies that serve as the core fabric that add color and strength to this global, dynamic business serving the subsea defense, commercial, and scientific markets."
August 2009
ASA's Daniel Mendelsohn was interviewed by Providence Business News
ASA's Daniel Mendelsohn was interviewed by Providence Business News' Kevin Shalvey to shed light on the state of wind energy projects in Rhode Island and ASA's new contract for a wind feasibility study for North Kingstown. "In places like Rhode Island, it's not like Oklahoma or Iowa, where there are wide open spaces. There are a lot of people, a lot of development everywhere, so you have to be really careful about how you place these things so they don't unduly impact any residents," said ASA Senior Principal Daniel Mendelsohn.
June 2009
ASA Featured on NBC 10 News of Rhode Island and Southern Massachussetts
NBC 10 News reporter and meteorologist, R.J. Heim came to ASA for a better understanding of how the U.S. Coast Guard and the SAROPS search and rescue software is being applied in the case of the Air France Flight 447 mystery to locate the missing plane's fuselage, flight data recorders, passengers and crew. Guy deWardener and Lee Dooley were interviewed on the subject and discuss the SAROPS system and how ASA is involved in working with the Coast Guard on the technology.
March 2009
Wind Farm Projects Could Spur National Job Boom
ASA's Daniel Mendelsohn's discussion was highlighted during the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association’s recent Boston conference and trade show..
October 2008
Naval Sub and Drift Software Aid North Sea Hunt for Bonhomme Richard
ASA's key role in the ongoing search for the famous Bonhomme Richard along with U.S. Naval submarine highlighted in the October issue of Marine Technology Reporter.
July 2008
ASA Makes the List of Top 100 Marine Technology Companies for Second Consecutive Year
The Third Annual Marine Technology Reporter's Top 100 marine technology company listing (MTR100) again releases its list of cutting-edge companies.
July 2008
Naval Sub and Drift Software Aid North Sea Hunt For Famous Wreck
In this followup story to the search for the famous Bonhomme Richard wreck, ASA's custom drift simulation software is credited for providing promising targets for the current phase of the search using a Nuclear Naval Submarine to survey the identifed sites on the ocean floor.
December 2007
ASA provides support to China MSA for monitoring recent South Korea oil spill
ASA's Xiongping Zhang provides support to China's Oil Spill Emergency Response Center--working on monitoring and forecasting spilled oils from South Korea Oil Spill accident.
July 2007
ASA makes the list of the year's 100 most influential marine technology companies
MTR's editorial staff whittled through thousands of candidate companies for this year's MTR100 listing.
"This year's MTR100 listing embodies what I believe to be a comprehensive and diverse slice of the subsea technology pie, with profiles of 100 of the leading organizations driving the subsea technology market today." - Gregory R. Trauthwein, Editor, Marine Technology Reporter
June 2007
Dual-use Applications are Focus of New Undersea Center
ASA founder Malcolm Spaulding was interviewed about ASA's dual purpose application technology.
This spring, the U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center awarded the University of Rhode Island $150,000 to create a Center of Excellence in Undersea Technology. The center is the first of its kind in the nation sponsored by the Navy to develop important dual-use technology with marine applications. Providence Business News spoke with Malcolm L. Spaulding, a professor of ocean engineering and director of the center, about its mission and the kinds of projects it will be working on....
June 2007
Narragansett Firm Helps Prepare Ports for Attacks
ASA's Chris Galagan was interviewed about ASA's application development work for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Applied Science Associates Inc., a marine science consulting firm, has designed a software application for the Port Security Training and Exercise Program, a series of tests the U.S. Coast Guard and the federal Transportation Security Administration are conducted in 40 cities......
April 2007
Modeling Movement in Water
ASA's CIO Guy deWardener was interviewed about ASA's modeling application development work.
What do the Coast Guard, dredgers and the oil industry have in common? They all, from time to time, have a need to predict where something is going in a large body of water.....
April 2007
ASA Flood Modeling Supports Boston Globe Climate Change Feature
ASA's models were featured on the front page of the Boston Globe as well as in three other segments on the topic of climate change and flooding featured on Boston.com.
This is the third in a series of occasional articles examining climate change, its effects, and possible solutions, by Beth Daly, staff writer for the Boston Globe. Three articles, an interactive graphic presentation, and links to ASA's flood modeling, services and solutions are all part of this feature....
April 6, 2007
Lost at Sea and Rescued by Modern Technology
System uses data on wind, currents, tides to find man.
You fall overboard from your cruise ship, splash into the ocean off South Florida, and surface only to watch the ship sail on.....
April 1, 2007
RI Firm Credited in Rescue
Computer software developed by a band of URI grads at Applied Science Associates, of Narragansett, helps track a cruise ship passenger who had fallen overboard.
You fall overboard from your cruise ship, splash into the ocean off South Florida, and surface only to watch the ship sail on.....
January 16, 2007
Using New Software, Shipwreck Searchers Might Be Near Goal
ASA was credited in Investor's Business Daily for the progress in the search for the famous sunken war ship, Bon Homme Richard.
An expedition using new software to search for the wreck of a ship commanded by Revolutionary War hero John Paul Jones found some interesting remains on the ocean floor off Britain....
