Equipment
The laboratories are well equipped, with a range of major laboratory and scientific equipment, together with smaller miscellaneous items available at VMSC. The list below is updated regularly. There is a high quality open seawater system that takes water from nearby Lonsdale Bight.
- Balance top loading
- Biohazard Cabinets (1)
- Cold lights (2)
- Dessicator
- Fume hoods (3)
- Hydrolab Seawater Probe, H20 Multiprobe
- Laboratory dishwasher
- Oven Conventional
- Refractometer
- Jasco UV/Vis Spectrophotometer JV500
- Hitachi F2500 Fluorescence Spectrophotometer
- Temperature controlled Centrifuge
- TPS Lab Analyser
- Laminar Flow Cabinet (1)
- Gelman Filter stand for 293mm diameter filter paper
- Iwaki magnetic pumps (2)
- Autoclave
- Microbalance
- Reverse osmosis, de-ionised water system
- Centrifuge
- Microscope - Compound ZEISS with SLR camera mount, video mount and video camera
- Stereo Microscopes Leica M8 (4)
- Student Microscopes Stereo (40)
- Student Microscopes Compound (15)
- Freezers (3)
- Freezer -80oC, with CO2control
- Peristaltic pumps (2)
- Analytical Balance
- Refrigerated incubator
- STD meter
- Niskin bottle
- Eckman grab
- Temperature and light loggers