The Department of Geology and Geography has invested in lab and field equipment to support faculty education and research focus areas.
Geoscience Lab:
- A large collection of minerals, rocks, fossils, and 3d models.
- Research grade petrographic microscope and student petrographic scopes.
- Impregnation equipment for rock samples.
- Rock saw and sieve shaker.
- 3D aquifer model.
- Gigapan Epic 100.
- Access to nearby electron microprobe and SEM facility with modest academic pricing: SENCR-MIC.
Field Equipment:
- GPR - MALÅ XV Monitor with 500 MHz, 250 MHz, and 100 MHz antennas
- Water level measurement tapes, a submersible pump, stream flow meters, wading rods, current meter digitizers, temperature sensors, pH meters, multiprobes YSI ProDSS, alkalinity test kits, digital titrators, and Photometer YSI 9500.
Cartography Lab:
- Located at room 1314 on the first floor of Oxendine Science building
- Desktops and workstations
- Geospatial and Geoscience specific software
- Esri ArcGIS Suite
- RockWorks
- Agisoft Metashape
- Adobe Creative suite
- others
- HP Large format printer
- Lulzbot 3D Printer
- Vaquform DT2 Professional Desktop Thermoformer
- A DJI Mavic 2 Pro and 2 Parrot Anafi sUAS in conjunction with the Kids in the Garden Project