Founded in 1977, Biospherical Instruments Inc. is a research-oriented company. Based in San Diego, Calif., it designs and manufactures scientific instrumentation for environmental monitoring. This ranges from the Antarctic and Arctic, to municipal drinking water reservoirs. It offers customers various products, such as terrestrial and oceanographic global UV monitoring systems, water quality monitoring systems for municipal reservoirs and a wide variety of UV/visible wavelength radiometers for use in oceanographic/atmospheric research. Some of the services provides by Biospherical Instruments Inc. are evaluation, maintenance and optical recalibration.