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
• Autonomous underwater vehicle (with CTD, 600-kHz side-scan sonar, and video)
• Bottom samplers (grab samplers, box and piston cores)
• Bottom sled with profiling plow, video, and still-photography capabilities
• 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)