Geophysical equipment
The FEEA has a suite of land-based geophysical equipment and researchers in the School of Geography and Geosciences have extensive experience deploying this equipment in marine and land-based studies and for investigations in geoarchaeology, geoengineering, habitat evaluation and ground-water quality, from studies of Scottish sea-lochs to Lake Tana in Ethiopia.
The equipment pool for terrestrial studies currently includes:
- Geometrics Refraction Seismograph
- Syscal Electrical resistivity Meter
- GEM Magentic Gradiometer
- Geonics VLF
A small inshore survey vessel and inshore inflatable boats are available for marine and lacustrine investigations. These vessels act as platforms for geophysical survey equipment including:
- 28, 100, 200 kHz echo sounders
- Echoplus Acoustic Ground Discrimination System
- 100kHz, 300 kHz and 650 kHz side-scan sonar
- 117kHz Sumbetrix Bathymetric Sidescan sonar
- ORE 3.5kHz Sub-bottom Profiler
- Multi-array Sub-bottom Sparker System
- Geometrics G-880 Marine Magnetometer
- VideoRay ROV Explorer
- Seabird CTD
