Computer Laboratory
Equipment includes:
- 30 Dell computers, scanners, and laser and color printers
- HP Designjet T2300 eMFP large format plotter and scanner
GIS and remote sensing software
- ESRI ArcGIS 10
- ERDAS Imagine 2010
Hydrologic software
- AquaChem
- Visual MODFlow
- AquiferTest
- BASINS (Better Assessment Science Integrating point & Non-point Sources)
- PLOAD (Pollutant Load Model)
- SWAT (Soil & Water Assessment Tool)
- HSPF (Hydrological Simulation Program-Fortran)
Statistical software
- SigmaPlot
Scanning Electron Microscope Laboratory
Equipment includes:
- Hitachi model TM-1000 SEM
- EDS-elemental analysis
- Digital photography
- Dell computer
Microscope Laboratory
Equipment includes:
- 15 Olympus polarizing petrographic microscopes
- Nikon macroscope
- Refelcted light microscope
- Digital microscope camera and supporting Dell computer
- Video microscope camera and monitor
- Complete suite of petrographic thin-sections for mineralogy; and sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous petrography
- Dell computer and printer
Ground Penetrating Radar
Equipment includes:
- Geophysical Survey Systems Inc. model GSSI SR-20 GPR
- Cart, computer and analysis software
Radon Detection
Equipment includes:
- RadStar Model RS300 Continuous Radon Monitor unit
Hydrogeologic and Environmental Testing Equipment
Equipment includes:
- Armfield Stream Flume
- Price digital current meter
- Digital water level meter
- Equipment for soil and regolith testing of the Atterburg limits of plasticity
Rock preparation Laboratory
- Equipment includes:
- Ingram Thin-Section Cut-Off Saw (for 2”x3” and 1”x2” thin-sections)
- Ingram Thin-Section Grinder (for 2”x3” and 1”x2” thin-sections)
- 3 lapidary wheels
- 18” oil-based rock saw
- 8” water-based rock saw
- Rock Crusher
- Ro-Tap Testing Sieve Shaker
- Air Abrasive Machine
Meteorology and Climatology Laboratory
Equipment includes:
- Dell computers
- Davis Vantage Pro Weather Station
- Hurricane Tracking Maps
- Sling Psychrometers
- Mannix Instruments handheld anemometers and temperature instruments
- Control Company electronic Traceable® Hygrometer, Thermometer and Dew Point instruments
Biogeography, Environment, and Tree-Ring Laboratory
Equipment includes:
- Dell computers
- MeasureJ2X Software
- Velmex Measuring System (capable of measuring to 0.001mm)
- FHX2: Fire History Software
- Hagloff Increment Bores (16”-24”)
- Hagloff Laser Vertex Hypsometer
- Field Tapes (100’ and 165’) and Diameter Tapes (5m and 10m)
- Stihl 460 Chainsaw with 28" bar (with full complement of safety equipment)
- Trimble Nomad Handheld Computer
- GeoXM Handheld Field Computer
- Makita 4x24 Belt Sander (with sand paper grits ranging from 50 to 400)
- Meiji EMZ-8T Trinocular Microscope (with boom stand and fiber optic light source
Paleontology Laboratory
Equipment includes:
- Binocular microscopes
- Binocular macroscope
- Air abrasive and pneumatic airscribe for fossil preparation
- Wet laboratory facilities for acid preparation
General Field Equipment
- GPS units including Garmin GPSMap 60CSx and Garmin Rino 530HCx
- Brunton compasses
- Topcon GPT-300W Series Reflectorless Total Station for surveying
- Measuring tapes
- Field belts, rock hammers, acid bottles and holders