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 Coastal Wetlands Institute Facilities
 
Controlled environment facilities
The environment control chamber room has:
  • two Conviron E-15 (ca. 1 m x 2 m inside)
  • two Conviron E-8 units (ca. 1 m X 1.5 m inside)

    The adjacent room has:
  • two small culture type growth cabinets
  • two -80C upright freezers
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    Greenhouse
    Space in the climate controlled glasshouse can reserved at http://www.mta.ca/Research/macwi/forms/greenhouse_request.html
       
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    Digital fluorescence microscopy
    The Microscopy room has:
  • one microtome for cutting thin (1/200 mm) slices of wax - or plastic-embedded tissue for microscopy
  • one microscope with image analysis for visualization of fresh or embedded tissue in brightfield, flourescence, or DIC modes with the capability for storage and manipulation of acquired images.
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    Energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy
    The energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy system, located in the Digital Microscopy Facility, is for elemental analysis of sediments associated with algal mats.
       
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    Chignecto Herbarium
    The herbarium has:
  • 15 herbarium cabinets with over 5000 mounted plant specimens mainly from the New Brunswick - Nova Scotia Border area.
  • plant dryer for drying the plant specimens in the plant press
  • three plant presses for pressing and preserving the collected plants
  • two stereoscopes: Leica MS5 & Wild Heerberg
  • one microscope
  • plant identification guides and manuals, including: Flora of New Brunswick, Flora of Nova Scotia, and Cronquist & Gleason manual and illustrated companion.
  • Chignecto Taxa Files prepared by Dr. H. Harries

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    Sedimentology laboratory
    The sedimentology lab has:
  • two electronic balances: determines the mass of a sample
  • drying oven: dries samples for analysis and determines water content
  • muffle furnace: determines the organic matter content of a sample using a loss-on-ignition method
  • Coulter LS200 size analyzer: uses laser diffraction technology to measure the particle size distribution of a sample from 0.4 to 2000 micrometres diameter
  • vacuum pump
  • glassware
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    Field equipment
    Dodge Ram 4X4 truck
    Logic boat (overall length - 6m 4cm) with 130HP Honda outboard motor

    The truck and boat can be reserved at
    http://www.mta.ca/Research/macwi/forms/truck_boat_request.html
       
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    Molecular biology laboratory
    The molecular lab has:
  • a gradient PCR system
  • a simple DNA sequencer system
  • a Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis system
  • a pulses field electrophoresis system for separating very large DNA molecules
  • a BioRad FluorSMax CCD multiimager system
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    © 2005 Mount Allison University
    Maintained by Cindy Spicer
    November 27, 2009