Field equipment and laboratory facilities

The marine biogeochemistry groups maintains a range 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.