The U.S. Coast Guard receives thousands of reports of people lost at sea each year. In many of those cases the military service uses a program created by a South Kingstown-based company to track where the person could be in hopes of rescuing him or her alive.

From its humble beginnings in a one-room office with one employee, to a global company employing 90 people, Applied Science Associates (ASA) now serves a diverse clientele ranging from the world’s largest oil companies seeking to model oil spills to town councils in tiny communities exploring the feasibility of erecting a wind turbine.

Full Story: Modeling to solve marine mysteries Source: Providence Business News, January 11th, 2010 Author: Chris Barrett Added on January 13th, 2010 at 12:17 pm, by Matt Mikula