Facilities & Equipment
State-of-the-art equipment for cutting-edge research
The Department maintains state-of-the-art equipment for conducting cutting-edge field and laboratory research. Major facilities include numerous dry laboratories, a greenhouse with running seawater, an image-analysis laboratory, an Autonomous Systems laboratory, several walk-in environmental rooms, and access to the Institute's state-of-the-art Seawater Research Laboratory.
Field Equipment
- Anemometers and other types of flow meters
- Bottom samplers (grab samplers, box and piston cores)
- CTDs
- Data-loggers
- FLOWCAM
- Light meters
- Oxygen meters
- Radiometers
- Sediment-profile and surface cameras
- Transmissometers
Laboratory Instrumentation
- Fluorometer
- Flow cytometer with full sorting capability
- Gas chromatographs with thermal-conductivity, flame-ionization, flame-photometric, and electron-capture detectors
- Emission spectrometer for N-15 analyses
- UV-VIS spectrophotometer
- Infrared gas analyzer
- Nitrogen dioxide detector
- Multispectral light analyzer
- Nutrient autoanalyzer
- Microscopes (dissecting, compound, inverted, and epifluorescence)