Field Equipment

HBS maintains an extensive menu of field equipment available to researchers and visiting classes.  Contact Associate Director Jason Love (jlove@email.wcu.edu) for inquiries and reservations.  Fees apply for some equipment.

General

• 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
• Snake gaiters
• Snake hook

Entomology

• 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

Aquatics

• Kick nets
• D-nets
• Seines
• Surber Sampler
• Secchi disks
• Buckets, specimen trays
• Two ISCO automated stream samplers, including pressure transducers for measuring stage
• Waders
• Hach 2100Q turbidity meter
• Orion pH meter
• Self-leveling rotary laser kit for measure stream gradients

Botany / Forest Ecology

• Plant presses (blotting paper, frame, straps)
• Pressed plant dryers
• Hand lenses
• DBH tapes
• Tree corers – up to 32” length
• Spherical densiometers

Ornithology

• Binoculars
• Mist nets (must have banding license to use)

Mammalogy

• Sherman small mammal folding traps