Hydrology Research Facilities

The Center's participating faculty members have a thorough collection of state-of-the-art laboratory, field and computational equipment for hydrologic research. These provide a means for collecting and analyzing data as well as opportunities to learn valuable research techniques necessary for careers in academia and industry.

Laboratory equipment includes:
• Atomic absorption spectrophotometers • Liquid scintillation counter
• Automated electron microprobe • Permeameters
• Cathodoluminoscope • Rapid sediment analyzer
• Direct current plasma emission spectrometer • Stable isotope ratio mass spectrometer
• ICP mass spectrometer • Total carbon analyzer
• Infrared spectrometer facility • X-radiograph
• Ion chromatographs • X ray diffractometer


Field equipment includes:
• Conductivity,temperature,dissolved oxygen and pH meters • Geoprobe soil coring sampler
• Digital data loggers • High-frequency velocity temperature, pressure and water vapor instrumentation
• Digital automated surface water quality samplers • ISCO water samplers
• Digital automated river gaging station (both flumes and v-notched weirs) • Lake bottom piston coring sampler
• Digital automated rain gages • Mobile lab for near surface and soil gas exchange research
• Digital barometers • Pressure transducers
• Digital velocity meters for stream gaging • Radon-222 and CO2 detectors
• Diver-operated and terrestrial vibracorers • Submersible pumps
• Electromagnetic flowmeter • Water vapor CO2 concentration instrumentation
• Electronic total station • Wet-dry atmospheric deposition collectors



Computational equipment includes:

Dozens of workstations (Sun, Silicon Graphics. DEC and Hewlett-Packard) and personal computers (IBM and Apple) with extensive peripherals (printers, digitizers, hard drives, recordable CD-ROM and Exabyte tape drives). Computer time is also readily available at the North Carolina Supercomputer Center.



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