The gang after a long day harvesting biomass in an alpine meadow
The Biodiversity and Landscape Ecology Research Facility includes the following:
1. A research laboratory equipped with:
2. Field work infrastructure including:
1. A research laboratory equipped with:
- microscope / specimen identification workstations
- herbarium collection of Okanagan plant specimens
- Cornell cabinet with insect specimens from the Okanagan
- high performance computing infrastructure (server + cluster + multiple workstations)
- drying ovens
- samples/specimen freezer & fridge
- we share wet lab facilities with other ecology labs in the building
- data visualization workspace including large touch-screen display and video conferencing space
2. Field work infrastructure including:
- research truck (4x4)
- all necessary sampling gear for plants, insects, and soils (and also aerial dispersed diatoms!)
- deep soil corer (up to 9 ft)
- large deep-freeze field coolers (for deep soil cores)
- rugged laptops
- handheld GPS units and high-precision GPS units
- 9 Hobo sensor stations, each equipped to measure rain, wind, PAR, SR, relative humidity, air temperature, soil moisture (x4) , soil temperature (x4)