Room G139
Director: Mike Wiley
Size: 680 ft²

Supports research focused on freshwater rivers, lakes and wetlands. OSHA approved for formalin preserved sample processing, equipped with negative pressure hood, and continuous DI supply.  Facilities/capabilities include:  multiple low and high power microscope stations with video imaging and measurement capacity, and supporting Phase-contrast  and epi-flouresent microscopy; Equipment for manual nutrient and basic water chemistry analysis including a scanning 2nm bandwidth UV spectrophotometer, analytical balance, micro-balance,  a variety of field and lab conductivity, oxygen, turbidity sondes/meters;  field sampling gear for benthic macroinvertebrates (ponar, Hess, Surber) and fishes (backpack , tow barge and small boat mounted electrofishing  gear); hydrologic measurement capacity includes current meters (Marsh-McBirney, Swofford, Proce), two bridgeboards, boat mounted high frequency and pulse-coherent Doppler sonars, stage and well monitoring sensors; river sediment sampling equipment for suspended and bed loads.  Adjacent computing cluster supports GIS, numerical hydrologic, hydraulic, and ecological modeling.