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
- 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
- Large capacity water bath
- 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)
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