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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Department of Plant and Soil Science

Equipment and Facilities Available in Hills Science

Basement:
Basement: two walk-in coolers, one large growth chamber & 3 upright incubators*
First floor:
Room 11: Eiki digital projector
Room 12: FAX machine, color laser printer, high speed B & W printer, photocopier,
Paper shredder, paper cutter, automatic stapler, Panasonic S-VHS camcorder with professional tripod, portable overhead and slide projectors, projection screens, portable microphone
Room 12A: IBM correcting Selectric III typewriter, two Dell computers, flatbed scanner, 35-mm slide scanners
Room 15: autoclave; circulating, cold-temperature baths; growth chambers; still for distilled water; LI-COR datalogger with point-source and linear light meter; LI-COR spectrophotometer and radiometer; 3 incubators, drying oven*
Room 16: laminar flow hood; Nikon phase-contrast light microscope; Nikon dissecting microscope; milligram scale; vacuum pump*
Room 17: ornamental horticulture teaching laboratory
Room 18: laminar flow hood
Room 19: conference room (sign-up sheet in Rm. 12)
Room 20: soils and entomology teaching laboratory (many dissecting scopes)
Second floor:
Room 120: low temperature incubators, LI-COR LI-3100 Leaf area meter*
Room 126: Inverted compound research microscope, and upright compound research microscope, and inverted clinical microscope, 2 research stereoscopes, video-imaging microscopes, pressure plate-soil moisture meter, fluorescent & spectrophotometric plate reader, nematode extraction equipment, -80C freezer, ultrapure water*
Room 135: certified fumehood with gas and water outlets
Third floor:
Hallway: photocopier
Room 200: WinRhizo root scanner, theta probe (hand-held moisture meter), copy stand*
Room 219: Agricultural and Environmental Testing Laboratory*
Room 226: centrifuge*
Room 227: UDY grinding mills*
Room 229: Undergraduate Student Resource Room; five PC-computers
Room 234: network-linked classroom with digital image projector*
Room 235: Plant Diagnostic Clinic* (digital image recording phase contrast microscope and dissecting scope, video camera with video-capture)

*This equipment is not departmental. Please consult with individual faculty members before using any of their equipment.

Last modified April 23 2012 10:46 AM

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