This lab houses facilities for washing and wet sieving samples; a drying oven, four high-powered dissecting microscopes for micropaleontology, and bench space for sample analysis and computers for instrument control and data processing. A three-place analytical Ohaus Explorer balance is available for weighing samples and chemical storage locker hold reagents safely. There are two Konica-Minolta UV/VIS CM2600d spectrophotometers for analysis of sediment lithology.
For water quality and environmental remote sensing work, the lab includes three factory radiance-calibrated, Malvern/Panalytical ASD spectroradiometers: a FieldSpec 4 Standard Resolution (SR) VSWIR spectroradiometer (350-2500nm), a FieldSpec HH2 Pro VNIR spectroradiometer (400-900nm), and a FieldSpec HH2 VNIR spectroradiometer (400-900nm). The Malvern/Panalytical ASD spectroradiometers are equipped with radiometrically-calibrated 10-degree foreoptics for field measurement of calibrated absolute surface reflectance, radiometrically-calibrated reflective RCR (4SR) or diffuse RCR cosine theta receptors (HH2 Pro and HH2) for field measurement of downwelling solar irradiance and the diffuse to global ratio. Two high intensity/high bright contact probes are available for calibrated measurement of absolute reflectance of filtered water samples and powered sediment samples. The FieldSpec 4 SR is also equipped with a Leaf Clip for in vivo measurement of transmittance across plant leaves. A bbe+ Fluoroprobe multichannel fluorometer and custom towing body are used for identification of multiple classes of algae and cyanobacteria. A turner designs Trilogy fluorometer is available for measurement of nutrients, chlorophyll-a and other plant pigments from water samples.