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Season's greetings
The Star-Oddi team wishes you a happy holiday and a prosperous new year!
 
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2011 in review
_150_150.jpg) 2011 has been a busy year for Star-Oddi. In February we introduced the Fish Selector, a revolutionary equipment that automatically separates the fish while still in the trawl. We also introduced a new product in March, the DST nano-TD, and attended the Ocean Business meeting in Southampton. May saw the release of new versions of our DST bird and DST CT/CTD loggers and everyone in Iceland went Boom bang-a-bang over Eurovision. We also visited wonderful Copenhagen for the Scandlas meeting and in June the Star-Oddi team tried its hand at sushi making with varied success. 
The autumn was quite a busy season with the release of two new products, the DST sonic, an acoustic listening tag, and DewMon, an air system monitor. We also attended the AFS meeting in Seattle and the SPS meeting in Innsbruck, Austria. In October we attended, for the first time, the AALAS meeting in sunny San Diego. We then finished the year with a visit to London for the LASA meeting.
2012 also promises to be an exciting and eventful year beginning with the release of Star-Oddi's new telemetry system.
We look forward to seeing you in the new year!
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Distributor of the month: Nippon Kaiyo
 Our distributor of the month is the Japanese company Nippon Kaiyo.
Nippon Kaiyo Co., Ltd. has 50 years of experience in ocean related business in Japan and is currently composed of three different divisions.
Measuring Instrument & Environmental Research Division is one of the three divisions and started selling GPS Fish tag in 2004 which was jointly-developed by Star-Oddi and Simrad. Since then, we became one of the distributors of Star-Oddi for DST tags with great pleasure. DST tags are sold mainly to Japanese fishery-related universities and national research institutes.
You can contact Nippon Kaiyo by e-mail: info-sokki@n-kaiyo.com or visit their website: www.nipponkaiyo.co.jp
Star-Oddi would like to thank Nippon Kaiyo for their dedicated work through the years and looks forward to continued collaboration.
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Star-Oddi Online
Now you can find product updates, video tutorials and general information about Star-Oddi on:
   
Data Storage Tags - DSTs
Star-Oddi has been manufacturing and developing DSTs since 1993. The data loggers are used for various studies, such as fish tagging, fishing gear studies and oceanography. You can find our whole product range here. The following sensors are available:
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Holiday opening hours at Star-Oddi
 Our offices will be open at our usual hours during the holiday season except on December 26th when we're closed due to a national holiday.
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New ticket system
Star-Oddi has added a ticket system to its application software: SeaStar, Mercury and FoodStar.
The user can now send tickets directly from the software (under the Help menu) to Star-Oddi's support department. The feature also offers the option of sending files, recorder data and screenshots with the ticket.
Tickets can also be created by sending an e-mail to support@star-oddi.com
Click here to downlad the latest versions of SeaStar Mercury and FoodStar.
  
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Donate to a good cause!
 In the months of November and December Star-Oddi will be donating 10% of our profits from all ebay purchases to Mote Marine.
If you know of a non-profit organization that you would like us to donate to please send us your suggestions at star-oddi@star-oddi.com.
Please click here to view our ebay offers.
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Icelandic christmas trees
It is believed that when the first Norwegian settlers arrived in Iceland in the 9th century the country was covered in trees. With the centuries the number of trees began to decline because of heavy exploitation for firewood and timber and overgrazing.
Christmas trees did not became fashionable in Iceland until the middle of the 19th century and could mainly be seen in the homes of Danish merchants and Icelandic dignitaries. These first trees were usually made of tree sticks which were painted green or red and decorated with candles.
It wasn't until about a century later that people started to buy authentic christmas trees which, due to the shortage of trees in Iceland, were mostly imported from Norway and Denmark. Icelandic pine trees then became available in the 1970s. Nowadays people can travel a short distance outside the city and choose their own christmas tree.
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