Advancing technology from the Oregon Coast

Advanced Research is an Oregon-based business providing expertise in air, marine, space, and land technologies. We specialize in satellite navigation technologies, and marine studies and applications, including fishery information systems. As residents of the rural Oregon Coast we endeavor to bring worldwide solutions to our community, while ensuring they are met responsibly and sustainably.

Advanced Research President John Lavrakas, 2011 Oregon Small Business Person of the Year!
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Fish Trax™ Marketplace is a new innovative product that allows consumers to learn about where their seafood comes from. Our goal is to bring the seafood and fishing communities to the marketplace by sharing the stories of who brings your seafood to your plate. We are building a community of trust among all of the links [...]

For many, Newport is tourist destination, sporting two lighthouses, a lively Bayfront district lined with shops and restaurants, and miles of rugged, majestic shoreline. For others, it is a fishing port, home to the most productive fishing fleet on the Oregon coast and a thriving working waterfront. But to marine scientists from Oregon State University, [...]

Oregon state legislators are considering House Bill 3451 to establish at OSU an Oceangoing Research Vessel Program. This bill fits into a larger multiyear effort to grow the marine science economic sector for Oregon. It began over four decades ago with the establishment of the Hatfield Marine Science Center, initiated with investments from the state [...]

In May 2007, I authored an article in GPS World looking ten years into the future and envisioning how the GNSS field would operate at that then-distant time. Reviewing my assessments, I see that I was both accurate and wide of the mark with my predictions. The prediction that has proved accurate was that the [...]