Shale Niskin
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Shale Niskin was the inventor of the Niskin bottle, a device used for collecting water samples. He also founded General Oceanics, Inc., in 1966 and served as the company's first president. General Oceanics, based in North Miami, Florida
, manufactures oceanographic and environmental monitoring equipment.
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
, manufactures oceanographic and environmental monitoring equipment.