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Lab Equipment
Field Equipment
CTD's and microstructure profilers are used to determine the stratification, the thickness of the bottom boundary layer and the vertical mixing taking place in the water column. We currently have two different microstructure profilers at this time, a modified Ocean Sensors OS100 CTD and a Precision Measurement Equipment (PME) Self Contained Autonomous MicroProfiler (SCAMP) [see picture] are used to determine the stratification and the thickness of the bottom boundary layer. Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP's) are used to measure the current in the area of interest, both bottom mounted and vessel mounted ADCP's are used for this purpose. The resultant velocity field can be used to determine the streamlines of the flow. A fluorometer (we have 2 Wetlab's Flashpack in situ fluorometers) is towed across the plume to map the three-dimensional extent and strength of the plume. The location of the centerline of the plume determines the streamline on which the source is located and the plumes width as a function of range downstream from the source determines the along the along streamline distance to the source. |
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Since much of the research in our lab involves mathematical and numerical modeling of physical and ecological processes, computers are vital to our research. Consequently, the laboratory is equipped with high-end visualization tools on Silicon Graphics and Linux workstations, which are interconnected with a high speed network. Miscellaneous equipment includes hi-resolution black and white printers, several color printers, a color flatbed scanner, and access to Integrative Biology's photographic slide imager, laser color printer, and large-format (poster) color printer. Larger computational needs are currently fulfilled with offsite resources: a Beowolf cluster of Sun Ultra Workstations with high-speed connectivity for parallel processing, and/or national supercomputer resources at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. 
The field equipment that we use include CTD/Microstructure profilers, fluorometers and Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP's).
