Benthic Services
we are equipped with excellent
Equipment
FBS is equipped with the following equipment:
Laboratory Equipment:
- Nikon SMZ1500 dissecting microscope: 0.75-11.25X zoom, 10X eyepieces, 7.5-112.5X magnification, direct and indirect lighting capabilities.
- Nikon MKII fiber optic lighting system.
- Nikon Labophot-2 compound microscope: 10X and 15X eyepieces, 4X, 10X 20X, 40X, and 100X objectives yielding 40X-1500X magnification, and phase contrast.
- Clay Adams specimen counters each with a bank of 8 counters and a totalizer.
- Eberbach wooden slide holders (2) each capable of holding 250 slides.
Computer:
- Pentium Processor
- 1.6 Gigabyte Hard-Drive
- 32 Megabyte RAM
- tape backup
- Windows 95 Operating system
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Jandel SigmatStat statistical software
- Okidata Okipage 6e LED printer
Miscellaneous Equipment:
- Backup Nikon dissecting microscope
- Backup Leitz-Wetzlar compound microscope
- Backup Epson Stylus Color 600 printer
- Backup fiber optic lighting system
- Slide warmer
- pH meter
- Variety of mesh sizes for sieving invertebrates, including Caton macroinvertebrate subsampler
- General Laboratory and Office Equipment
- Many papers detailing ecology of benthic invertebrates