Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory |
Our lab is equipped with a number of instruments to support field-based research in the areas of hydrology / hydrodynamics and environmental fate and transport. The lab is equipped with a Turner 10-AU field fluorometer and a flow-through cuvette (with optical filters for flourescein, rhodamine and ammonium), a Sontek River Surveyor M9 Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) for shallow river research, a 1200 kHz RD Instruments Rio Grande ADCP equipped with an OceanScience Riverboat for realtime deployments (river work), a 600 kHz TRDI Workhorse Monitor ADCP for measuring currents and waves (suitable for lake research / bottom deployments), a 1000 kHz TRDI V20 ADCP for shallow environments, NexSens Micro-T temperature loggers and mooring systems, Sontek Doppler Velocimeters (ADV), a 16 MHz MicroADV ideal for laboratory flume measurements, temperature and pressure transducers, data loggers, several flumes suitable for sediment transport studies, a Campbell OBS-3A turbidity and temperature monitoring system, Price AA current meters, GPS units for field research (a Magellan MobileMapper CX professional grade GPS unit with sub-meter resolution and a Garmin 62S, a recreational grade unit for creating waypoints and tracks with < 3m resolution in WAAS mode), depth sounders, high-resolution digital cameras for use during field work (e.g., a Nikon D7000 kit and an Olympus Tough TG-4 for underwater images), several In-Situ (mini-TROLL) level loggers, a Turner (SCUFA) submersible flourometer for Rhodamine-WT and two small boats. Our computational lab is equipped with a number of workstations (with dual quad-core processors) and software packages (e.g., IDL, MATLAB, MAPLE,Tecplot, Kaleidagraph, Intel Fortran and C++ compilers with IMSL and Math kernel libraries, ArcGIS, Systat, Sigmaplot, Origin, GMS, SMS). In addition, the environmental engineering labs in our department have a number of analytical systems for detecting chemicals in water including HPLC systems, TOC analyzers, and AA spectroscopy.
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LISST-100XSequoia Scientific LISST(Laser In-Situ Scattering and Transmissometry) - 100X for observations of particle processes and sediment transport studies.
Sontek-M9 Riversurveyor for river research.
YSI 6600 Multi-parameter Sonde (pH, DO, Turbidity, Depth, Conductivity.)
A Sontek Argonaut ADV
YSI ProOBOD Optical BOD/DO System
Nortek Aquadopp HR (High-Resolution) Profiler (2.0 MHz frequency)
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Sentinel V20 ADCPTeledyne - RD Instruments Sentinel ADCP (V20, 1000 kHz) for shallow environments with battery packs for extended deployments in lakes and rivers.
Water level meters, point source bailers etc. for groundwater research
A Sontek 16 MHz MicroADV ideal for laboratory flume measurements
Frames and battery packs for bottom deployments
Turner Designs SCUFA submersible fluorometer for continuous sampling of Rhodamine-WT
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DELL Clusters64-core DELL clusters hosted for our group by DECS (Division of Engineering Computing Services) in the College of Engineering. We use the MSU iCER / HPCC facilities for more demanding computational jobs.
OTT-MF-Pro electromagnetic flow meter (to measure discharge in streams using the wading method)
Water level and barologgers for groundwater / surface water research
Teledyne RD Instruments RioGrande (left, 1200 kHz) and Monitor (right, 600 kHz) ADCPs
Ocean Science Riverboat equipped with radio modems for realtime deployments
A 12-ft aluminum Jon boat for field work
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