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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:
  • microscope / specimen identification workstations
  • herbarium collection of Okanagan plant specimens
  • Cornell cabinet with insect specimens from the Okanagan
  • high performance computing infrastructure (server + 96 core 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)
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