Dedicated office, teaching, research, computer and analytical laboratory
space for geoscience is found in the basement and first floors of Lansing
Hall, St. Clair Street.
R/V HWS William F. Scandling
(formerly the Explorer)
Our steel heeled, 65 ft., well equipped, research vessel has access to
various lakes including Seneca, Cayuga & Ontario for student and faculty
classroom and research activities. The equipment list includes radar,
GPS, cellular phone, radios, depth finders, MicroBT, CTDs, high-resolution
subbottom profiler, side-scan sonar, current meters, temperature loggers,
& computers. Visit its web site for a more complete listing of the
capabilities, equipment, and use of the R/V HWS Scandling.
Oceanographic Equipment
Aanderaa RCM-4 Current Meters
Hugrun Seamon mini temperature recorders
2 Sea Bird CTD's - Electronic conductivity, temperature, depth profilers
with dissolved oxygen, pH and turbidity sensors
2 Piston Corers - Collection of a narrow diameters cylinder of lake sediment
2 Grab Samplers - Collection of surface sediment samples
EdgeTech's X-Star Subbottom Profiling System - Profiles the sediment structure
EdgeTech's AS-600 Side-Scan SONAR - Profiles the lake floor topography
Navigation Marker Buoys for Deployed Instrument Arrays
Standard limnologic and oceanographic equipment like secchi disks, plankton
nets, sieves, sample bottles, LaMotte chemical analysis kits, microscope,
etc.
Analytical Equipment
Dionex DX-120 Ion Chromatograph with AS-40 Autosampler.
Rigaku MaxiFlex X-Ray Diffractometer.
Fisons ARL 3410+ Inductively coupled plasma - Atomic emission Spectrophotometer
(ICP-AES) for chemical elemental analysis
Digico Spinner Magnetometer for rock paleomagnetism studies
Schonstedt AD-demagnetizer with six-axis spinner magnetometer for paleomagnetism
studies
Elzone, 282-PC Electronic grain-size analyzer for sediment size characterization
Note: some equipment shared with other departments
Pentium computer lab with GIS and AutoCAD software.
Sparc workstation Sun Computer
Mac II computers
HP DesignJet 755CM 3ft-wide Color Plotter
HP and TI laser and assorted dot-matrix printers
HP Deskjet 870 cse color printer
Assorted portable and other computers
HP ScanJet flatbed scanner
CalComp DrawingBoard III 4x6ft digitizing tablet
Summasketch II digitizing tablets
Ioline LP 4000 mp multipen large format plotter
HP 7475A multipen plotter
Miscellaneous Equipment
HWS Data Loggers
Faxitron X-Radiography unit
Soiltest MD-12/EX-100 Signal enhancement seismograph
Soiltest Strata-scout, Model R-40C resistivity meter
Monitoring well bailers
Conductivity, DO and pH meters for field work
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