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AEAL staff employs a variety of instruments and programs in their line of work. A brief list of our more prominent tools follows:

Aquatic Invertebrates

  • Surber sampler
  • Hess sampler
  • Hester-Dendy artificial substrate samplers
  • lazy susan-style subsampling troughs

    Fisheries

  • 10’x100’ beach seine
  • Destron-Fearing PIT tag reader
  • Northwest Marine Visual Implant Elastomer tagging system
  • Smith-Root 12-B backpack electrofisher
  • 8’x1’x16” Plexiglass flow-through in-stream rearing enclosures

    Logistics

  • Fisher IsoTemp minus-30 freezer
  • Revco Ultima minus-80 freezer
  • Zodiac Grand Raid II 13'9" inflatable w/ Yamaha 4-stroke 25hp outboard

    Optics and Imaging

  • Trailmaster infrared trail monitors
  • Leica DMLB compound microscope
  • Leica MZ12-5 dissecting microscope
  • Diagnostic Instruments SPOT microscope camera

    Molecular

  • Allegra Centrifuge with swing bucket rotor
  • CBS Scientific P-048-02 PCR Workstation
  • Dionex DX500 Ion Chromatograph
  • MJ Research PTC-0200 Thermal Cycler
  • UV transilluminator, camera, and thermal printer

    Water Quality

  • 3L Teflon water collection bottles and TECHMA cage
  • Marsh-McBirney Flo-Mate 2000 velocity flowmeter
  • Horiba U-10 multi-parameter water quality checker
  • Onset HOBO temperature loggers (Optic StowAway, 4-Channel External)
  • ISCO 6700 automated water samplers
  • USGS AA-MH 6215 current meters
  • USGS bridge boards, sounding weights

    Software

  • ArcGIS
  • CalEDAS
  • EcoMeas
  • Optimas v6.51
  • Simplex 2.0
  • Terrain Navigator Pro

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