COASTAL ECOLOGY INSTITUTE

RESEARCH FACILITIES

The facilities encompass over 14,000 square feet on the first and the second floor of the LSU Energy, Coast and Environment Building, divided into 25 offices, 12 laboratories, mini-library and two conference rooms.

Advanced Analytical Laboratory
Total Organic Carbon Analyzer
Intrinsic Well Germanium detector
Intrinsic Planar Germanium Detector With Automatic Sample Changer
Tri-Carb Liquid Scintillation Counter

Field Processing Laboratory
Muffle Furnaces
Drying Ovens
Centrifuges
Walk-In Freezer
Ice Machine
Shaker Tables

Isotope Ecology Laboratory
Sartorius M2P Microbalance
Mettler AE50 Balance
Perkin Elmer AD4 Autobalance
Schott Titroline easy Titrator
Thermo Finnigan Delta Plus XP Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer
Thermo Quest Delta Plus XP Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer
Carlo Erbr NA 1500 Elemental Analyzer
2 Laser Systems - 1) LUV 256 2) MIR Series InfraRed
New Brunswick Scientific Incubator

Marine Geochemistry Laboratory
Six-port cryogenic radon extraction line
Six Ludlum radon flask counters and photomultiplier tubes(18 Lucas cells)
Two analytical balances
IEC centrifuge
Turner Designs fluorometer

Hydrogeomorphics Laboratory
One Sontek RiverCat ADCP
Two continuous-recording Nortek side-looking acoustic Doppler current meters
Three continuous-recording Sontek shallow water stationary-mount ADVs
One Sontek hand-held ADV
Three YSI 6950 sondes
Three YSI 650XLM sondes currently configured for turbidity
One hand-held YSI 6500 data retrieval device
Three hand-held YSI probes (YSI30 salinity, conductivity, temperature; YSI65 S,C,T, pH; and YSI55 dissolved oxygen)
Six Infinities continuous-recording ultrasonic water level recorders

Coastal Production Laboratory
Lachat Nutrient Analyzer
Microwave Digestor
Microbalances
Turner Design Fluorometer
Centrifuge
Filtration Device

Benthic Ecology Laboratory
Specimen Sorting and Identification Systems
Microscopes
(1) Leka MZ95 Video equipped stereomicroscope
(1) Leitz Dialux 20 compound
(5) Wild M5 stereomicroscope
(1)Leitz Diaverd inverted microscope
Specimen preservation and inventory system
(1) solo cryogenic freezer
(2) Warton Dewav Storage Units
(1) Bar Code Inventory System
Field Gear
(6) Acoustic Transpowers (deployed)
(2) Acoustic releases
(3) S4 current meters

Simulation And Analysis Laboratory
3 Intel Xeon Workstations
Epson Stylus PRO 9600 printer
Nikon SuperCoolScan 4000 Scanner
Microtek ScanMaker 9800XL Scanner

Ecosystem Modeling Laboratory
6 Intel Xeon Workstations
Samsung 50" Plasma Screen
HP LaserJet 2200DN printer
Wireless mouse and keyboard

Image Laboratory
Camera Systems
(1) Nikon N-90 35 mm Camera
(1) Sony TR-700 Hi8 Video Camera
(3) Nikonos V underwater cameras with lights
(1) Stingway video housing
Video Players/Editors
(1) Sony DSR - 45 Digital DVCAM
(1) Sony EV0-9200 hi8 Editor
(1) Panasonic 6200 VCR
(1) Panasonic Laser Disc Recorder
Still Image Input Devices
(1) Nikon Coolscan 4000
(1) Nikon Coolscan 1000
(1) Eikonix Light Table
Output Devices
(1) Mitsubishi CP -2100 Video Printer
(1) Mitsubishi 3600 Sublimation printer
Computers
(1) Compaq Alpha XP - 1000 Unix Workstation
(1) Dell 330 Workstation
(3) Desktop PC's

Estuarine Ecology / Nutrient Biochemistry Laboratory
Fluorometer- TD 700
Turner Designs SubChemPak Nutrient Analyzer for continuous flow through measurement of nitrogen sulphate in the field Wetland Plant Ecology

Sample Processing Laboratory
Core cutting devices
centrifuge
drying oven
2 muffle furnaces
Ice machine
Walk in Refrigerator