Marine Science Research Facility equipment

September 10, 2015
  • Services include equipment training, consultation on experimental design and set up, and aquarium tours.
  • Coming soon – Beckman Coulter Counter for live and fixed samples and Visualization lab including microscopes, high definition cameras and computers with large screen monitors
  • -20 Freezer
  • Autoclaves (1 large, 1 small)
  • Balance
  • BD Influx flow cytometer and technician
  • Cell counting chambers
  • Clean Bench
  • Environmental chambers
 (4 100 sq.ft. each, 2 range from 4-24C, 2 range from -4-24C)
  • Eppendorf microcentrifuge
  • Eppendorf PCR machines (2)
  • Filter manifold with 25 and 47 mm filter cups
  • FIRe Flourometer (Fluorescence Induction Relaxation Fluorometer)
  • Flow cam
  • Gel visualization box
  • Handheld YSI
  • Heating/cooling block
  • Homogenizer
  • Incubated shaker
  • Laboratory fridge/freezer
  • Lachat Nutrient Auto-Analyzer
  • Laminar Flow Tank
  • Light Meter
  • Membrane Inlet Mass Spectrometer (MIMs)
  • Micropipettes (12)
  • Milli-Q water system
  • Nanodrop
  • Nikon Inverted Scope with Hoffman Contrast
  • Olympus Stereomicroscope
  • Percival incubator with dimmable lights
  • pH meter
  • Pipettes
  • Polytron homogenizer and generator
  • Respirometer Tank
  • Shakers (5)
  • Small Strip tube centrifuge
  • Sonifier
  • Spectra Max Plate Reader
  • Stingray Microscope Camera
  • Stratagene Q-PCR MXx3005P
  • Turner 10-AU fluorometer
  • Vacuum pump
  • Vortex
 (2)
  • Walk in -20 degrees C freezer
 (185 sq.ft.)
  • Water bath
  • Wet lab space with large flow capacity of filtered, ambient/chilled/heated seawater, raw seawater, UV treated seawater, air supply, alarm and monitoring systems, dedicated ozone treatment for transgenic and pathology lab effluent (3 buildings, 7,200 sq.ft. and nearly unlimited exterior space including mesocosm tanks)