Section VII lists the principal scientific equipment available at McMurdo, South Pole, and Palmer stations and onboard USAP research vessels. Astrophysics Aeronomy Analyzer, Logic Antenna, VLF Loop Camera, All-Sky Camera, Video, Towed Benthic, SCUDIVA Centrifuge, Refrigerated 12K RPM Micro Chart Recorder, Eight Channel Chart Recorder, Three Channel Chromatography, High Performance Liquid System (HPLC) Cryogen, Transfer Equipment Cryogen Transfer Lines Dewar, Liquid Helium Dewar, Liquid Helium Storage Dewar, Liquid Nitrogen Storage Dewar, Liquid Nitrogen Storage, 160 liter Filtration Apparatus, Membrane Heating Unit, Air Hi-Vacuum System Ice Maker Incubator, Percival Interferometer 29
Ionosonde, Digital Laboratory, Portable (Radiation) Leak Detection and Vacuum Pump Equipment Lidar Line Connector, 1.2 KVA Liquid Nitrogen Plant Magnetometer, Three Component Air Core Induction Magnetometer, Three Axis Fluxgate Neutron Monitor, Super Multisection Nitrogen Liquifier Oscilloscope Oxygen-Analyzing System Photometer, Auroral Pipette Puller Power Conditioner Pump, Turbomolecular Radiotelescope, Microwave Receiving System, VLF Riometers, 30 & 50 MHz Scintillator Array, 16-element Sky Monitor, Mid Infrared Sky Monitor, Near Infrared Signal Generator Spectral Analyzer Spectrometer, -ray (high altitude, long- duration) Spectrometer, Infrared Spectroradiometer, Ultraviolet 30
Tape Transport, Dual Density Tape Drive, Giga Tape 5 Mb Telescope, 12" (Optical) Telescope, Gamma Ray Telescope, Microwave Telescope, Mid-Infrared Telescope, NCAR Infrared Telescope, Optical Telescope, Submillimeter Telescopes, Astronomical Thermal Electric Generator (TEG) Time Domain Reflectometer (TDR) Transport, Liquid Helium (leased) Transport, Liquid Nitrogen Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) Water Chiller Biology Aquaria Analyzer, Carbon/Nitrogen/Sulfur Analyzer, Infrared,Carbon Dioxide Analyzer, Infrared, Hydrocarbon Analyzer, Lactate Analyzer, Total Organic Carbon Autoanalyzer Autoclave Balance, Electronic 31
Bath, Hybridization Bath, Water Bath, Water, Circulating Bath, Water, Shaking Calorimeter Camera, Digital Still Camera, Solid State, for Microscopic Image Analysis Camera, Still, Underwater Camera, Video, for Microscopy Camera, Video, Underwater, w/time lapse capability and remote viewing Cell Disrupter Cell Injector, Micro Centrifuge, Clinical Centrifuge, 20K RPM Centrifuge, Refrigerated Speed Vac Centrifuge, Refrigerator Chart Recorder, Single Channel Chart Recorder, Dual Channel Chart Recorder, Three Channel Chiller, Aquarium Chromatography Equipment Chromatography, High Performance Liquid System (HPLC) Chromatography, Gas, System Chromatography, Ion, System Collector, Fraction Colorimeter Compressor, Air, Scuba Tank 32
Cooler, Immersion Counter, Gamma Counter, Geiger Muller Counter, Particle Counter, Scintillation, DPM Output Counter, Liquid Scintillation Cryostat Data Acquisition System Datalogger Deck Unit/Transducer Detector, Column Absorbance Dewar, Liquid Nitrogen Storage Dive Propulsion Systems Dry Ice Maker Dry Shippers, Liquid Nitrogen Electrocardiograph Electrophoresis Equipment Electroporator Environmental Room, Temp. Controlled Evaporator, Rotary Filtration Apparatus, Water Filtration Apparatus, Membrane Fluorometer Fluorometer, DNA Freeze Dryer Freezer, to -20 C Freezer, to -70 C Freezer, Walk-in Furnace, Graphite 33
Furnace, Muffle Gas Partitioner Hematology Equipment Hi-Vacuum System Homogenizer Hood, Fume Hood, Portable Fume Absorber Ice Maker Ice Maker (dry ice) Incubator,Hybridization Incubator, Low Temperature Incubator, Percival Laboratory, Portable (for sea ice) Laminar Flow Bench Light Pipette Lipid Analysis System Luminometer Melter, Ice Hole Meter, Microoxygen Meter, Oxygen Meter, ph Microbalance Microcentrifuge Microscope, Compound, Epifluorescence Microscope, Compound (for light/dark field microscopy) Evap Microscope, Cold Stage Microscope, Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) 34
Microscope, Dissecting (for light/dark field microscopy) Microscope, Compound (for phase contrast microscopy) Microscope, Image Analysis System Microscope, Inverted, Epifluorescence Microplate Reader Microtome Microtome, Cryostat Oscillograph, Recording, Thermal, 8 Channel Oscilloscope Osmometer, Vapor Pressure Oven Oxidizer, Biological Oxygen-Analyzing System Photometer, Integrating (for ATP) Photometer, Flame Photosynthesis System Phototrans illuminator Plotters, Thermal Processor, Tissue Projector, Digital Pump, Suction Pump, Vacuum Receiver, ATS Receiver, VHF Radio Refrigerator, Explosion Proof Respirometer, Gilson Scale, Platform, Sled Mountable Sediment Trap 35
Sensor, Irradiance (for dry use) Sensor, Irradiance (for submersible use) Sequencing System Spectrophotometer, Atomic Absorption Spectrophotofluorometer Spectrophotometer Spectrophotometer, Diode Array Spectroradiometer Stage, Cooling, Microscope Thermocycler Thermocycler, PCR Thermometer, Digital Transponder Reader Ultracentrifuge Ultrafiltration Unit UV Sensor, Portable VCR, High Resolution Vibration-free table Video System, Underwater Voltage Clamp Water Purification System Workstation, PICO Tag Computers MacIntosh: Laptop 36
Desktop PC: Desktop Laptop Workstation: HP 9000 SGI 02 SGI Challenge L (Multibeam computers) SGI Iris SPARC IP Sun SPARC 10 Sun U450 Sun Ultra1 Sun Ultra2 Sun SPARC 2 SGI Indy Printers Dot Matrix Dye Sublimation, Color Ink Jet, Color Laser Miscellaneous CDRom - R CD Writer Magneto-optical Drive Digitizer Plotter, Ink Jet, Monochrome Plotter, Pen, Color Zip Drive 37
Environmental Monitoring Acoustic Release Analyzer, CO Analyzer, NOx Analyzer, Pesticide/PUF Analyzer, SO 2 Calibration System, Multigas Concentrator, Turbo-Vap II Current Meter Deck unit/transducer Sampler, Air, Hi-Vol. Toxicity Analyzer Water Quality Logging System Water Quality System Geology/Geophysics Ball Mill Chronology Clock Data Translation D/A Converters Diamond Drill and Associated Equipment Echo Sounder, Bathy 2000 "chirp" sub- bottom profiler Echo Sounder, Knudsen, Sub-bottom Profiler Echo Sounder, Simrad EK500 Gravimeter, Portable Gravimeter, Air-Sea 38
Heliocoder Jack Hammer Jumbo Piston Corer Kasten Corer Microscope, Electronic Stage w/point counter Microscope, Polarizing with Camera Microscopes, Petrographic Petrographic Scope Rock Saws Rock Polisher, Automatic Seismic, Benthos, Single Channel Seismic Bolt, Long-Life Array, 6 guns, 3000 cubic inches total Seismic, G/I air-guns (210 cu in) Seismic, G/I water-gun (25 cu in) Seismic, ITI multi-channel streamer (48 channel, 25m group interval) Seismic, ITI single channel streamer Survey System, GPS Swath bathymetric mapping system Thin-Section Machine Time Standard Geomagnetism Antennas, Dipole Gradiometer, Magnetic--towed 39
Magnetometer, Portable Magnetometer, Quartz, Horizontal Magnetometer, Standard Induction Magnetometer, Towed Magnetograph, Three-component, Standard, Low Sensitivity Magnetograph, Three-component, Rapid Run, Low Sensitivity Magnetometer, Visible Recording Time Standard Glaciology Drill, Jiffy w/ Power Head Drill, Shallow (100 meters) Drill, Ice Coring, Intermediate (500-1000m) Generator, Shear Wave Geoceivers Ice Auger, SIPRE Rigsby Stage 40
Meteorology Barometers Data Loggers Detectors, Aerosol and CN (balloon-borne) Laser Ceilometer Precipitation Gauges Pressure Indicators Pyrgeometers Pyranometer Receiver, High Resolution Picture (Terascan) Recorder, Four-Channel Satellite Receiving Data Manipulation System Set of Pyranometers, Tyrhelometers and Net Radiometers Temperature Probe Aspirators, Quali- metrics/weather Measure Temperature Probes, RTD-Platinum Temperature Thermometers Transmitters, PTT Weather Station Weather Stations, Automatic Weather System Wind System and Recorder with Transmitter Wind Anemometers Wind Indicators Wind Translators 41
Oceanography/Limnology A-Frame Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler Acoustic Release with Surface Command Unit Nutrient Analyzer Conductivity Temperature Depth Instrument (CTD) Current Meter, Electromagnetic Data Acquisition System Deep Sea Coring System Depth Finder Echo Sounder, Biosonics Acoustic Profiler Flourometer, Fast Repetition-Rate Flourometer, Flow-through Go-Flo Bottles Hood Laminar Flow, Portable Hydraulic Boom Hydrodavit Inflatable Boat, Zodiac Isotope Van Laboratory Van Garage/Clean Laboratory Van Launcher, BT Liquid Helium Vapor Recovery System Messenger Metering Sheave Niskin Bottle 42
PC02 Instrument Plankton Net Pressure Transducer Radar Rosette Salinometer SAT P-Code GPS Sediment Trap Sonar, Side Scan Thermosalinograph Transmissometer Trawl Gear Winch, Deep Sea Trawl Winch, Hydrographic Winch, Portable, Electric Winch, Portable, Gasoline Winch, Portable Hand Seismology Gravimeter Gravimeter, Lacoste & Romberg (Marine) IRIS System Receiver, GPS Seismograph 43
Other Cryogen Vaporizer Data Link, Satellite Drill Press Frequency Counter Global Positioning System Handheld Global Positioning System Lathe LO Transport Maritime Fixed Station (INMARSAT) Meter, Multi Meter, RCL Mill Milling Machine, Vertical Nitrogen Generator Projector, Video Resistors and Capacitors, Decade Scanner Tracking System, Satellite Transceivers, Satellite, ATS-3 Un-interruptible power supply (UPS) Video Camcorder 1 = R/V Laurence M. Gould 2 = R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer 3 = Automated Geophysical Observatory 44