Lab Equipment Rentals
Highlands Biological Station has an array of equipment available for students and researchers, from tape measures to automated stream water sampling units. A full list of equipment can be found here.
** Please note we are currently updating our equipment list and pricing structure. For availability for specific equipment you will need to contact us at hbw@wcu.edu.
Access to the lab equipment below is available for $20/day:
- Fume hood
- DI water filtration system
- Refrigerators, freezers (-20° C and -80° C)
- ThermoFisher Forma reach-in environmental control chamber (model 3940, 29 cu. ft., precision temp and RH control)
- Autoclave
- Analytical balances
- Drying oven and desiccation chambers
- Water baths, including precision temp control water bath
- pH meters
- 33 feet x 20 inch artificial streams with retractable shades.
- Mesocosm tanks
Field Equipment
HBS maintains an extensive menu of field equipment available to researchers and visiting classes. Email our Program Assistant at wford@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
- Compound and dissecting scopes are available.
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