The Environmental Engineering facilities consist of laboratories supporting the research of faculty members. Below, the facilities are listed by faculty member. Laboratory addresses refer to the following abbreviations:
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| Bielefeldt Lab ECSL 1B13 |
Located in the Engineering Center’s recently completed Stores & Labs wing, this lab contains a gas chromatograph, a bio-hood, respirometers, incubators, and computer-driven instrument control and data acquisition systems. |
| Hernandez Lab ECSL 1B17 |
The Hernandez Lab contains an epifluorescence microscope and image analysis system, other microscopes for microbiological assay, and a bio-hood. |
| McKnight Lab INSTAAR |
This lab, located on the East Research Campus in the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), houses a flame/furnace atomic absorption spectrophotometer and a full complement of surface water sampling equipment. |
| Ryan Lab ECSL 1B21 |
This lab houses a dynamic light scattering photometer, a laser Doppler velocimetry microelectrophoresis instrument, a liquid scintillation counter, a computer-controlled automatic titrator, a UV-visible spectrophotometer, two computer-controlled flow-through column systems, computer data acquisition systems, groundwater sampling equipment, and an intermediate-scale (10 m length, 1.5 m height) aquifer test tank. |
| Silverstein Lab ECCE 1xx |
This lab contains a full range of sequential batch reactors with associated pumps and computer-controlled data acquisition systems and a bio-hood. |
| Summers Lab ECCE 1xx |
This lab contains membrane filtration testing rigs. |
| Instrument Lab ECCE 1xx |
This shared laboratory contains three different types of total organic carbon analyzers, a high pressure liquid chromatography unit currently used for size exclusion chromatography, a liquid chromatograph, a particle size analyzer, ultrafiltration test equipment, and a UV-visible spectrometer. |
| Undergraduate Lab ECSL 1B11 |
The current undergraduate laboratory, which supports the laboratory component of CVEN 3454 Water Chemistry, houses two gas chromatographs with computer-controlled data acquisition systems, titration equipment, meters for pH and conductivity, portable field test kits for colorimetric analysis, visible spectrophotometers, jar test apparatuses, and some field sampling equipment. Much of the equipment in this lab has been provided by the Engineering Excellence Fund, a student-funded and organized committee that reviews proposals for improvement in education. |
| Computers | Students have access to high-performance work stations and PCs for advanced computing in the Bechtel and Leung Computing Laboratories and CADSWES. In addition, PCs are extensively used throughout the laboratories for data acquisition and analysis. |