Paleolimnology and
Environmental Sedimentology Lab
Salem State College
Facilities and Equipment
Prof. Brad Hubeny runs
and maintains the Paleolimnology and Environmental Sedimentology Lab at Salem
State College. Below is a partial
list of field and laboratory equipment available through this group:
Field
Equipment
- 24¹ pontoon research vessel equipped for a
variety of aquatic sampling needs.
Vessel is equipped with moon-pool, 2-ton winch, tripod, 1-ton
davit, 40hp engine.
- Modified Kullenberg piston coring system
capable of obtaining short surface cores (2 meters) with quality
sediment/water interface as well as long (5.5 meters) cores of soft
lacustrine or estuarine sediments
- Livingstone Coring system with adaptor for
4² barrels
- SyQwest Stratabox high-resolution acoustic
sub-bottom profiler
- Variety of sediment traps, including
prototype time-series traps designed by Brad
- Sediment grabs and filtering equipment
- YSI geochemical probes
- Jon boat with outboard and electric motors
Laboratory
Equipment
- Elementar micro cube/Isoprime 100 Elemental
analyzer/ isotope ratio mass spectrometer (EA/IRMS)
- Bartington magnetic susceptibility meter
with high-resolution point sensor and dual frequency sensor
- High-resolution core imaging system
- Muffle furnace
- Equipment and facilities for soft sediment
thin section preparation
- Various sediment sieves for wet and dry
sieving; RoTap
- Prep facilities for stable C, N, and S
isotope analyses
- Permin Elmer flame atomic absorption
spectrometer
- Epson scanner and software for varve
analyses