BioGeomorphology Research Laboratory
Director: Allan James, Professor of Geography
Location: Rm. 204, Callcott Bldg.
Lab Phone: (803) 777-7344
Computational Lab
Traditional "Wet" Lab
Staff
- Virtual Home of the Possum Trot Gully Stompers
Links - Useful contacts
and readings (under construction)
The Biogeomorphology Research Laboratory in the
Geography Dept. at USC has both a wet lab in one room and a computational
lab in the adjoining room. It is equipped for teaching
and research in biogeography, geomorphology, hydrology,
and sedimentation. The wet lab is set up for
tree-ring analysis, sedimentary particle-size analysis, optical microscopy,
water filtration for suspended sediment, and other basic analyses.
We also keep field
equipment in the lab.
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Computational Lab Equipment
Includes: 
- Two Dell Optiplex GX620 computers with
Intel Pentium
D 3.00 GHz processors, 240 GB Hard drives, and 2.00 GB
RAM.
- Three Dell Pentium 4 computers (not shown in photo to right).
- Software on the local drives includes ArcGIS 9.1 (ESRI),
ERDAS Imagine 9.0.
- Full broadband local and internet connectivity.
- Wonderful support from staff and students at the Center for GIS and Remote Sensing
which is upstairs one flight of stairs.
Traditional "Wet" Lab Equipment
Includes:
- Gravitometry: M220 Denver Instruments
analytical
balance, two digital balances, portable digital scale
s, and triple-beam balances.
- Large capacity fume hood; gravity
oven, muffle furnace, hotplates, magnetic stirrers, and heated water
bath.
- Still for distilled water, centrifuge,
three desiccators,
vacuum chamber, and vacuum desiccator (at right).
- Gas, water, refrigeration, microwave,
PC, phone.
- Glassware: beakers, graduated cylinders,
flasks, settling tubes, test tubes, separatory flasks, ehrlemeyer flasks,
side-arm flasks, etc.
Optical Microscopy
Particle-size analysis:
- 1000 mL graduated cylinders,
hydrometers, pipettes, etc.
- Sonic
sifter with stainless steel micro-sieves 63, 125, 250, 500 and 100 microns
for precision grain-size analysis of sands.
- Recent addition: Two ultra-fine 3" stainless steel sieves for
the sonic sifter: 20 and 25 microns.
- 8" brass
sieves from 43 microns to 32 mm.
- 8" stainless steel sieves - 38, 53, 63, and 75 microns
- Sonifier for
ultrasonic cleaning of microsieves.
- Soil grinder/mixer, RoTap seive-shaker,
oscillating agitator.
- Munsell color charts.
Sediment Concentrations & Water
Quality:
- Two ISCO 3700 automated samplers;
programable, capacity of 24-bottles
- Buchner filters (10 cm & 2 cm diameter)
- Three 1-liter sediment cones.
-
Vacuum pump; three-filter manifold.
Field Equipment
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More photos and equipment descriptions...
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Last Modified:
11/15/2007 Allan James (AJames@sc.edu)
Links
Standard U. S. Lab and Field Methods
U. S. Geological Survey - Techniques
of Water-Resources Investigations Reports
s, and triple-beam balances.
