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.
Access to lab equipment is available for $20/day:
Available Lab Equipment
- 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
- Compound and Stereomicroscopes
- Leitz Microlab Trinocular Fluorescence Microscope
- 3 walk-in precision Environmental Control Chambers (Temp, RH, Photoperiod), by Darwin Chambers
- Liquid nitrogen dry shipper, 4.3 L, with protective shipping container
- Centrifuges and Microcentrifuges
FIELD EQUIPMENT
HBS maintains an extensive menu of field equipment available to researchers and visiting classes. Email our Program Specialist at svickery@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
- Compound and dissecting scopes ($5/day)
- Darwin Environmental Chambers (price upon request)
- Reach-In Environmental Chambers
- Balance
- Fluorescence compound microscope ($10/day)
- SC150 Immersion Circulator
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
- Orion pH meter
- Self-leveling rotary laser kit for measure stream gradients
- YSI Pro2030 ($20/day)
- OTT MF Pro – Water Flow Meter ($30/day)
- LABOPORT – UN 811KVP
- HACH 2100Q turbidity meter ($20/day)
- Hydrosense II ($20/day)
- Wilco Instruments plankton net
- Wildco sampler ($10/day)
Botany/Forest Ecology
- Plant presses (blotting paper, frame, straps)
- Hand lenses
- DBH tapes
- Tree corers – up to 32” length
- Spherical densiometers
- Laser rangefinder ($10/day)
- CIRAS-3 ($50/day)
- Double Beam Spectrometer ($20/day)
- Eppendorf Mastercycler
- SAPS II System Analysis of Plant Stress (user pays gas)
- SHEL LAB forced air oven ($20/day)
- Notch BIG SHOT Deluxe ($10/day)
- Large calipers
- Self-Leveling Laser ($40/day)
- High-quality scanner
