Lab & Field Equipment

HBS maintains an extensive inventory of lab and field equipment available to researchers and visiting classes — from analytical balances and environmental chambers to automated stream samplers and PIT tag readers.

Reservations & enquiries Email our Business & Communications Manager at svickery@wcu.edu to check availability and make a reservation. Fees apply for some field equipment; lab access is $20/day.

Lab access

Laboratory Equipment

$20 / day
Flat daily rate for access to the full lab equipment suite — fume hood, freezers, autoclave, microscopes, environmental chambers, and more.

Per item / varies

Field Equipment

$5–$50 / day
Item-by-item pricing for field equipment. Many items are free; specialised instruments carry a per-day fee. See full lists below.

Lab Equipment

$20 / day — full lab access
Fume hood
DI water filtration system
Refrigerators
Freezers (−20 °C and −80 °C)
ThermoFisher Forma reach-in environmental chamber (Model 3940, 29 cu. ft., precision temp & RH)
Autoclave
Analytical balances
Drying oven and desiccation chambers
Water baths incl. precision temp control
pH meters
33 ft × 20 in artificial streams with retractable shades
Mesocosm tanks
Compound and stereomicroscopes
Leitz Microlab trinocular fluorescence microscope
3 walk-in precision environmental control chambers (temp, RH, photoperiod) — Darwin Chambers
Liquid nitrogen dry shipper, 4.3 L with protective container
Centrifuges and microcentrifuges

Field Equipment

An extensive menu of field equipment is available to researchers and visiting classes. Email svickery@wcu.edu for enquiries and reservations. Items without a listed price are available at no charge; specialised instruments carry a per-day fee as noted.

Field equipment

General

17 items · mixed pricing

GPS units (Garmin GPSmap 62s & GPSMap 66i)
Kestrel 5500 hand-held weather meters (temp, barometric pressure, wind speed)
Geological hammers
Tape measures
Flagging tape & pin flags
Counters & timers
Thermometers
HOBO stream temperature loggers
Sieves
Compound and dissecting scopes$5 / day
Darwin Environmental ChambersPrice on request
Reach-in Environmental Chambers
Analytical balance (MT XPR105DR)
Fluorescence compound microscope$10 / day
SC150 Immersion Circulator

Field equipment

Entomology

11 items · no additional fees

Aerial and sweep nets
Kill jars
Pinning equipment (pinning blocks, spreading boards)
Insect pins not provided
Hand lenses
Black lights
Light traps
Berlese funnels
Malaise traps
Emergence traps
Beat sheets
Aspirators

Field equipment

Botany & Forest Ecology

15 items · some with daily fees

Plant presses (blotting paper, frame, straps)
Hand lenses
DBH tapes
Tree corers — up to 32" length
Spherical densiometers
Laser rangefinder (TruPulse 360R)$10 / day
CIRAS-3 portable photosynthesis system$50 / day
Double beam spectrophotometer$20 / day
Eppendorf Mastercycler
SAPS II — System Analysis of Plant StressUser pays gas
SHEL LAB forced air oven$20 / day
Notch Big Shot Deluxe$10 / day
Large calipers
Self-levelling laser (Topcon RL-H5A)$40 / day
High-quality flatbed scanner

Ready to book?

Contact our Program Specialist to check availability, confirm pricing, and make a reservation. Equipment is available to HBS researchers and visiting classes.

Email svickery@wcu.edu View Academic Facilities