EQUIPMENT & RESOURCES

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Culture Collections

• Methanogenic and several anaerobic bacterial cultures 

• Diatoms

• Algae 

 

Sediment & Water Column Sampling Technology

• Gravity corers, box cores

• Niskin bottles

 

In situ Technologies

• Underwater eddy covariance

• Microsensors 

• Optodes

 

Greenhouse gas detection & Stable Isotope Analyses

• GC-IRMS Thermo Delta V Plus mass spectrometer with ConFlo-II GasBench & Precon peripherals for analysis of N2, DIC & CH4.

• Multi collector mass spectrometer precisION Elementar with Greenhouse Gas Module for analysis of N2 & N2O.

• GC with ECD, TCD, and FID and peripherals for automatic sampling

• Flow injection analyzer (FIA) for nitrous oxides NOx

 

Solute Detection Systems

• IC with a conductivity detector

• Coulometer for DIC measurements

• Flow injection analyzer (FIA) for DIC and/or ammonia

 

Elemental Analyses

• ​Cleanroom for trace elemental analyses​

• Elemental analyzer EA-IRMS for S, C, and N

• ICP-MS Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer for ultra-low concentrations of elements

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Radioisotope Lab

• Radioactivity scintillation counter Perkin Elmer TriCarb

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Bioelectrochemistry​

• Potentiostats 4 (total of 22 channels) 

• H-cell-type reactors, including membranes and electrodes

 

Molecular microbiology

• Microvolume spectrophotometer MySpec

• Laminar flow hood

• BioRad Micropulser Electroporator

• qPCR machine

• PCR machines (2)

• Epifluorescence microscopes (3)

 

​Batch & continuous cultivation equipment

• ​Chemostats 

• Light incubators for phototrophs

• Anaerobic chamber

• Degassing stations (4)