Field equipment and laboratory facilities
The marine biogeochemistry group maintains a range of field-deployable equipment and laboratories.
The marine biogeochemistry groups oversee a variety of field-deployable equipment and laboratories, including:
- Seabird SBE19Plus CTD fitted with dissolved oxygen, PAR sensor and fluorometer
- General Oceanics 1018 autonomous trace metal clean rosette and kevlar wire (6000 m)
- Mobile clean container laboratory
- A field laboratory facility for foraminifer culture in temperature, light and carbonate chemistry-controlled baths
- Brightfield photomicrograph of the planktic foraminifer Universa orbulina growing under laboratory conditions.