Ecology

Facilities 

• Hess and Serber Stream Samplers for collection of invertebrates from stream environments
• R/V Raquette 16 ft aluminum v-hull 25 hp boat for small lake and river work
• Ponar and Ekman Benthic Dredges for collection of invertebrates from deep water habitats
• Zooplankton net (0.6 m diameter, 65 µm) for collection of zooplankton and phytoplankton
• Compound and Stereo Microscopes for observation of invertebrate organisms
• Percival Programmable Incubators for culture of plants and insects under natural light and temperature cycles
• Coulter Multisizer 3 for plankton size enumeration and sizing
• Fluoroprobe submersible fluorometer for characterizing pigmented plankton communities
• Hester-Dendy samplers for characterizing colonization by lake and stream aquatic invertebrates
• Depth finder and global positioning systems
• YSI multiprobe submersible conductivity, temperature, depth, pH, dissolved oxygen sounder with 100 ft cable; for characterizing water column properties in lakes
• R/V Santa Clara 14 ft aluminum flat-bottom row boat for shallow water work
• R/V Lavinia 25 ft, 2 x 150 hp, Boston Whaler/Challenger, 25 mile radar, marine radio, DGPS; for large lake and St. Lawrence River work
• Turner Designs model AU-10 fluorometer for detection of colored dissolved organic matter, chlorophyll and other phytoplankton pigments, with flow through cell
• ArcView Geographic Information System software
• Van Dorn, Niskin, and Go-Flo bottles for collecting water samples at depth
• Radio tracking receivers and digital range finder
• Hand held geographic positioning system (GPS) units
• Spotting scopes and binoculars
• Video cameras and monitors