Equipment in the Paleoecology and Biogeography Laboratory
- Field gear
- Lake sediment sampling
- Livingstone piston corers
- Surface corers
- Freeze corer
- Inflatable rafts and coring platform
- Stainless steel casing (35 m) and alloy drive rods
- Aquatic sampling
- Water sampler
- YSI conductivity and dO2 probe
- Digital depth finder
- Forest ecology sampling
- Garmin GPS
- Increment borers
- Laboratory equipment
- Wet lab and fume hood for sediment chemical analyses
- Pollen preparation
- Biogenic silica
- Radiocarbon sample isolation and cleaning
- Cold room with archiving racks for 300+ m of sediment core
- Balance
- Muffle furnace
- Centrifuges
- Large capacity water bath
- Spectrophotometer
- Magnetic susceptibility core logger and cup meter
- The Sieve-O-Matic: Sieving apparatus for batch-processing sediment cores (25 sample capacity)
- Compound microscopes (2), stereoscopes (3), digital cameras for photomicroscopy
- Pollen reference collection
- Tree-ring measuring bench
- Computer equipment
- Macintosh with GRASS GIS workstation
- PC Workstations (3)