Equipment List

Walk-in Environmental Chamber (adjustable temperature and lighting schedule; but typically used for culture maintenance)

Two Percival Incubators (programmable temperature and lighting schedules)

Immersion circulator and benchtop incubator on a lab bench

  1. Three immersion circulators (programmable temperatures; inflow/outflow ports to allow temperature control in external arenas as well - see below for example)

  2. Three benchtop incubators (adjustable temperature, no lighting)

Water baths connected to an immersion circulator by tubing

Water baths for use with the immersion circulator and respirometer

Custom-built CTmax set-ups of various configurations (mostly for use in the field; immersion circulators will be used for CTmax measurements in the lab)

Olympus BX51 compound microscope
Olympus Bx51 Compound Microscope

Olympus stereoscope on a lab bench
Two Olympus SZX16 stereoscopes (darkfield, brightfield, oblique cartridges)

Two other standard dissection scopes

Lab bench with a centrifuge, thermocycler, vortexer, drying ovens, and other benchtop equipment

  1. Centrifuge

  2. Thermocycler (fits standard range of PCR tubes)

  3. Vortexer

  4. Two drying ovens

  5. Slide warmer (large surface that maintains fairly constant temperature)

  6. Shaking dry bath (minimum RPM of XYZ)

Analytical balance and laboratory scale on a lab bench
Laboratory scale and analytical balance

Desktop computer and flatbed scanner on a desk

Desktop computer and high resolution scanner

Loligo microrespirometer (three sets of plate readers)

Laptop computer (for use with the respirometer and immersion circulators)

YSI with temperature, conductivity, pH, and dissolved oxygen probes

Range of handheld salinometers and thermometers

Plankton nets of various widths and mesh sizes

Phytoplankton cultures in flasks on a lit culture shelf

Culturing requirements (phytoplankton and zooplankton; lighting rig, air pumps, airstones, nutrient media, etc.)

Jars, beakers, buckets, tubes, and well plates of various sizes