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Facilities

Room 3 houses the x-ray and x-ray developing room, and is also outfitted with long lab benches for sediment core subsamping, processing, and core photography.  Room 3 also houses the lab Herbarium.  Room 105 is the wet lab, equipped with a fume hood and centrifuges for extracting microfossils from sediments, or cellulose from wood, or other related extraction proceedures.  The wet lab is also equipped with an oven and muffle furnace, manual and automated sediment grinders, and stir plates.  Room 107 contains both teaching and research grade transmitted light microscopes, and a dissecting scope for examination of macro-fossils.  Room 107 also houses the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) pollen reference collections, and a number of G4 Apple computers, in addition to a new iMac with Intel dual core processors.  The iMac is effectively dual platform, and is running ArcGIS 9.1.  Room 112 is consists of storage for field equipment and related tools.

Field Equipment

• Livingston piston corers (narrow and wide guage)
• Vonnart piston corer
• soil auger
• Russian peat borer
• YSI temperature, conductivity, and salinity meter
• dinghies for raft construction
• tools
• plant press

Specialized lab equipment for sediment core processing

• Bartington MS2 Magnetic susceptibility meter
• Faxitron cabinet x-ray system