Facilities
The Environmental Science Program has several teaching laboratories for Physical Geology, Land Use and Management, Geographic Information Systems, and Remote Sensing courses. It also maintains research facilities for environmental spatial analysis which are equipped with:
- ten (10) Dell Dimension XPS T-450 MHz PC’s
- five (5) Gateway P5-60 PC’s
- three (3) Gateway 2000 486 MHz PC’s
- one (1) Dell PowerEdge 6100 workstation
- one (1) Sun Sparc workstation
- one (1) IBM Color Plotter
- two (2) CalComp digitizing tables
- several HP inkjet printers
- software licenses for ArcView, ArcInfo, Imagine, ENVI, and others
- two (2) Bausch & Lomb Zoom Transfer Scopes
- one (1) Cartographic Engineering Heightening Stereoscope
- one (1) Cartographic Engineering SB-190 Mirror Stereoscope
- one (1) Wild ST-4 stereoscope
The following equipment and supplies for field sampling and measurement are also available:
- one (1) HydroLab Datasonde 4A probe for multiple water parameters
- two (2) Hi-Vol air samplers
- water sampling equipment (bailers, bomb sampler, dippers)
- one (1) mercury analyzer
- one (1) soil humidity probe
- several planimeters (Ushikata and others)
- one (1) Zeiss level and tripod
- one (1) equipment for granulometric analysis
- one (1) conductivity meter
- two (2) GPS XR Surveyor systems
- two (2) GPS GeoExplorer II
- one (1) ORION Portable pH Meter Model 290A
- one (1) YSI Model 85 Portable D.O., Conductivity, Salinity and Temperature Meter
- one (1) HF Scientific Model DRT-15CE Portable Turbidimeter
- one (1) Digital Water Flow Meter
- one (1) YSI Model 52 D.O. Meter
Our students also have access to an wide collection of topographic, geologic and hydrologic maps, aerial photographs, rock and mineral collections, and other materials for use in the classroom as well as for research purposes.