Water Quality
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Water quality laboratory
This laboratory is equipped for sediment, nutrient, pesticide and bacterial analyses. Equipment includes analytical balances, membrane filtration apparatus, clean hoods, spectrophotometer, deionized-distilled water, centrifuges, drying ovens, refrigerators and freezers.
Watershed modeling laboratory
This laboratory has graduate-student-assigned modeling workstations, each equipped with powerful Windows-based computers, dual-screen monitors, server-based file storage and ESRI geographic information system site-license keys; a meeting table; and two student research computer workstations. Modelers routinely test and evaluate current releases and beta versions of leading watershed modeling software (e.g., SWAT, WEPP).