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Equipment

Geoscience Equipment Photo

Geoscience majors at HWS have access to state-of-the-art sedimentary research equipment for use in the field and lab.

Shared Field Equipment:

William Scandling, our 65-ft Research Vessel with crane, winch with - 500 m. ¼" cable, DGPS, depth finders, radar, radios, cell phone, Captain and crew, etc.

JB Snow, our 25-ft Pontoon Boat, trailer, 4 kW, 220V Yamaha generator, winch with 250 m. of ¼" cable, Lowrance LCX-104 DGPS/WAAS depthfinder.


Field Equipment Deployable from the William Scandling and the JB Snow:

  • Sea Bird SBE-25 CTD - Electronic conductivity, temperature, depth profiler with stainless steel cage, pump (SBE-5T), and dissolved oxygen (SBE 43), pH (SBE 18), fluorescence (WETLabs ECO-FLU), turbidity (WETLabs ECO-FLU), and light (PAR) intensity (Biospherical PAR, QSP 2300) sesnors.

  • Sea Bird SBE-19 CTD's - Electronic conductivity, temperature, depth profilers with stainless steel cages, dissolved oxygen and pH sensors and PC computer for communications. One CTD also has a SeaTech 25" path-length transmissometer. (2)

  • Standard limnologic and oceanographic equipment including secchi disks, plankton nets (80 and 150 micron mesh), sediment sieves, - 1.7 and 10 liter General Oceanics Niskin water sample bottles, LaMotte chemical analysis kits, microscope with digital display on laptop, pH meters, conductivity meters, thermometers, etc.

  • Piston Corers (ETH and Alpine designs), Gravity/Piston Corer (Benthos) & Grab Samplers (two standard ponar dredges) Aanderaa RDCP 600 Doppler Current Profilers (3)

  • Aanderaa RCM-4 and RCM-7 Current Meters

  • Hugrun Seamon mini temperature recorders

  • McLane PARAFLUX 78H-21, 21 Sample, Sediment Traps (5)

  • EdgeTech's X-Star Subbottom High-Resolution (1 to 12 kHz) Seismic Profiling System

  • EdgeTech's AS-600 Side-Scan SONAR (50 or 200 kHz)

  • Navigation Marker Buoys for Deployed Instrument Arrays

Other Field Equipment:

  • Trimble Pathfinder Pro DGPS System

  • Handheld GPS units, Garmin GPS76 WAAS handheld GPS receivers (7)

  • Speedtech Depthmate depth sounders (6)

  • Marsh-McBirney Model 2000 Flowmate Portable flow meters (2)

  • ISCO Portable Water Sampler Model 6712 with 24, 1-L bottles

  • An array of HWS Data Loggers

  • Standard Field Geology gear including Bruntons, Silvas, rock hammers, sledge hammers, tents, sleeping bags, etc.

  • Conductivity, DO, pH, bailers, stream flow (pigmy) and other handheld meters for field work

  • YSI/Endeco Water Quality Profiler & Meteorological Station: EMM-2500 Buoy Platform, with wind speed and direction, air temperature, barometric pressure, relative humidity, and solar radiation sensors and 6600-D Multi-Parameter Water Quality Logger with depth, conductivity, temperature, fluorescence, and turbidity probes.

Geoscience Analytical and Computer Equipment:

  • Costech CHNS Elemental Analyzer

  • Sartorius CP2P Microbalance

  • Beckman Coulter LS 230 Laser Diffraction grain-size analyzer

  • Dionix DX-120 Ion Chromatograph & Autosampler

  • Rigaku Multiflex X-Ray Diffractometer

  • Labconco 4.5 Freeze-Dry System

  • SPEX sample mill/pulverizer

  • McCrone Micronizing Mill

  • Vreeland Spectroscope

  • Genesys 10-vis Spectrophotometer

  • Spectronix 21D, 10-cm pathlength spectrophotometers

  • Ohmichron RaPID enzyme immunosorbent assay for atrazine and other triazines

  • Bartington MS-2 Magnetic Susceptibility meter with detection loop

  • Digico Spinner Magnetometer

  • Schonstedt AD-demagnetizer with six-axis spinner

  • Leica DMR phase contrast and MZ8 microscopes with analog photographic system

  • Leitz, Olympus, Bausch and Lomb and other petrographic microscopes

  • Windows Computer lab (Gateway desktops) with GIS (ArcGIS 9.1) capabilities

  • IBM ThinkPad laptop wireless computers in mobile cart with ArcGIS capabilities (15)

  • HP DesignJet 755CM 3ft-wide color plotter

  • HP DesignJet 750C Plus 3ft-wide color plotter

  • Various color and black & white laser and deskjet printers

  • Summasketch II (2x2 ft) digitizing tablets (7)

  • Various analytical balances, drying ovens, muffle furnaces, refrigerators, freezers, etc.

  • Various rock saws, rock crushers, sand sieves, thin section making equipment.

Geoscience & Environmental Studies Research Lab Space:

  • Meteorological Research Lab with PC Windows and Lynx based work stations.

  • Computer Research Lab with dedicated PC workstations, 4x6-ft digitizer, laser and dot-matrix printers, and (2) 3-ft wide HP plotters.

  • Hydrogeochemistry Research Lab for routine limnological wet chemistry and a separate space for the Ion Chromatograph.

  • Sedimentology and Paleoclimatology Lab for routine sediment preparation and a separate space for the CHNS analyzer and Laser particle size analyzer, and other for warm storage of field equipment.

  • 30x40-ft Pole Barn to store the pontoon boat and associated field equipment.

Get Involved

The Hot Spot is a student-run organization that may be of interest to students studying geoscience.

For more information about these organizations or to learn about starting your own geoscience-themed club, contact Cully Seamans (seamans@hws.edu) in the Office of Student Activities.