Biological Sciences Facilities

The Department and the Institute are well equipped with modern laboratory and field instrumentation in support of research in Biological Sciences.  Various laboratories are equipped with running salt water.  Major equipment includes:

acoustic doppler velocimeters, underwater video cameras, underwater spectral radiometer, Li-Cor light sensors and data loggers, computer-assisted image analysis hardware, remote sensing imaging processor, hydrolab sensors, thermocyclers

 

suspended sediment sensors for in situ studies of organism-sediment interactions in the aquatic environment, sediment profile cameras, box cores and benthic grabs

 

gas chromatographs fitted with various detectors, 15N-emission spectrometer, alpkem auto-analyzer for ten water chemistries, high performance liquid choromatographs (one equipped with a radioisotope detector), spectrophotometers

 

various microscopes including scanning and transmission electron microscopes, pulse-amplitude modulated microfluorometer, radioisotope modules, Li-Cor 4000 automated DNA sequencer, flow cytometer with fluorescence activated cell sorter

 

an autonomous underwater vehicle, seawater flume, outdoor mesocosm arrays supplied with running seawater, programmable light- and temperature-controlled walk-in chamber and greenhouse for photosynthesis-related studies