{"id":5,"date":"2022-05-24T21:50:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T21:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2022-06-02T15:57:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T22:57:28","slug":"lab-facilities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/lab-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Paleoecology Lab at UVic is housed in the <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uvic.ca\/search\/maps-buildings\/buildings\/cunningham.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cunningham Building<\/a><\/span> on the University of Victoria campus. We have a fully-equipped laboratory with all the infrastructure and equipment needed to\u00a0conduct research in paleoecology and palynology. Below is a partial list of our equipment and facilities:<\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Field Equipment<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Livingstone piston corers and drive rods<\/li>\n<li>Maxi and Mini Glew gravity corers and extruding devices<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Russian&#8217; D-corer, hammer and extension rods<\/li>\n<li>Percussion corer<\/li>\n<li>Zodiac 310 boats and coring platform<\/li>\n<li>YSI temperature-conductivity-pH meter<\/li>\n<li>Multiple Garmin GPS and digital cameras<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Lab Equipment<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Bartington magnetic susceptibility meter with MS2B and MS2E sensors<\/li>\n<li>Fumehoods suitable for work with hydrofluoric acid<\/li>\n<li>Large capacity Thermo centrifuge and Eppendorf microcentrifuge<\/li>\n<li>Mettler-Toledo analytical balances<\/li>\n<li>Thermo UV-Visible spectrophotometer<\/li>\n<li>Large capacity heating-shaking water bath<\/li>\n<li>Vulcan muffle furnace<\/li>\n<li>Large and small capacity programmable ovens<\/li>\n<li>Retsch steel ball mill<\/li>\n<li>Reference collections for pollen, spores and conifer stomata identification<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Microscopes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeiss.ca\/corporate\/en\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-178 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7031\/2022\/05\/Zeiss.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"76\" height=\"76\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7031\/2022\/05\/Zeiss.png 208w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7031\/2022\/05\/Zeiss-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7031\/2022\/05\/Zeiss-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Zeiss AxioImager M1 motorized compound microscope with bright-field, phase,\u00a0DIC,\u00a0fluorescence and Axiovision digital imaging and analysis system<\/li>\n<li>Zeiss AxioImager A1 and AxioLab compound microscopes<\/li>\n<li>Zeiss V16 Macroscope (3.5-112x magnification) with ZEN digital imaging system<\/li>\n<li>Zeiss V20 Discovery stereomicroscope (7.5-100x magnification)<\/li>\n<li>Various teaching-grade compound and dissecting microscopes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><strong><em>Infrastructure and equipment funding was provided through grants to Terri Lacourse from:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-175\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7031\/2022\/05\/nserc-1-300x133.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7031\/2022\/05\/nserc-1-300x133.png 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7031\/2022\/05\/nserc-1.png 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-177\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7031\/2022\/05\/CFI-300x90.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"61\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7031\/2022\/05\/CFI-300x90.png 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7031\/2022\/05\/CFI.png 502w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-180\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7031\/2022\/05\/uvic-300x118.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"59\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7031\/2022\/05\/uvic-300x118.png 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7031\/2022\/05\/uvic.png 381w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-181\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7031\/2022\/05\/BCKDF.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"105\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Paleoecology Lab at UVic is housed in the Cunningham Building on the University of Victoria campus. We have a fully-equipped laboratory with all the infrastructure and equipment needed to\u00a0conduct research in paleoecology and palynology. Below is a partial list of our equipment and facilities: Field Equipment Livingstone piston corers and drive rods Maxi and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/lab-facilities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lab Facilities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6543,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/paleoecolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}