Marine Culture Facilities
The marine culture facilities encompass a range of sophisticated equipment.
The marine culture facilities include:
- Incubators for culturing of marine phytoplankton (diatoms and coccolithophorids)
- Saltwater aquaria (including 1500L mesocosm) for maintenance and growth of tropical coral corals under experimentally controlled conditions
- Planktic foraminifer culture facility for temperature, light and carbonate chemistry controlled baths for foraminifer culture
- Multisizer 4 Coulter for phytoplankton counting and sizing
- Turner Designs 10AU Field fluorometer
- Automated pH and alkalinity system for seawater pH and carbonate chemistry control
- Nikon TE2000U and TS100 inverted microscopes equipped with digital microphotography capabilities
- Percival Model LT-36VL low temperature incubator for culturing Southern Ocean phytoplankton