Field equipment
The School maintains an extensive array of field equipment for land and marine surveying, sampling and monitoring. The equipment is used rountinely in ongoing research projects by School of Geography & Geosciences staff, however, access by external users is possible through collaborative projects or by agreement with the School. For the use of our equipment, please contact FEEA.
Terrestrial Surveying
- 4 handheld GPS systems for low resolution mapping and location
- 4 Automatic levels and staffs for general survey work
- 3 Total Station Leica theodolites for terrestrial survey to 1500 metres at 2-3mm accuracy (reflectorless capability on one machine to 200metres)
- 2 self reducing Microptic Alidades for detailed map survey of archoeological sites
- River and Lake Monitoring
- Water level stage recorders (Float and Pressure transducers)
- Wading current meters and ADCP
- Turbidity, conductivity and Ph meters
- Suspended sediment samplers
- Avon Redseal (3metre) inflatable boat
- radio controlled boat
Sampling
- 25 and 50mm Gouge corers for peats and soft sediments to 10 metres
- Russian Corer for undisturbed samples of peat and clay to 9 metres
- Percussion Corer (petrol) for coring in sands and silts 50-100mm diameter – including tripod and winch- to 8 metres – included piston corer for peats and clays)
- Vibracorer (petrol) for coring in sand and silts (75mm diameter) to 5 metres
Campbell Scientific Weather Stations
- wind speed, direction with raingauge wet/dry, temperature, humidity, solar panel for power (~3 months capacity at 10 minute intervals)
- wind speed, direction, temperature + solar radiation (short/long and reflected) for heat studies on glaciers (~3 months capacity - not solar powerered)
Marine Surveying
- 8 metre survey vessel ENVOY with DGPS and Hypac navigation software
- Sparker (to 1000 joules) low frequency source
- Pinger 3.5 kHz and 7 kHz
- Echosounders (various)
- Swath bathymetry system
- Various sidescan sonar systems
- Towed Magnetometer
- Conductivity
- Echoplus seabed discrimination system
- Suspended and seabed sampling
- Generators
