Facilities

• Sediment and pollen processing laboratory   A fully equipped chemical lab with an exhaust hood, centrifuge, and drying ovens. A separate microscope room with easy computer access to word processing and spreadsheet programs. Software available for processing the pollen counts, producing pollen diagrams and data files for computer analysis.

• Coring equipment   Canoes and coring platform along with a vibracore and Livingston-piston corers for obtaining sediment cores from lake bottoms and  marshes. Global positioning and electronic survey equipment.

• Refrigerated core storage room   Eight hundred cubic feet of cold storage for sediment cores.

• Computing equipment   Gateway, Sun and Macintosh personal computers with up-to-date statistics, graphics, publication, presentation, e-mail and web programs.  Ethernet connections to the GeoChem (Geology-Chemistry) local area network, the Brown University network and to the Internet. A dedicated Sun web server and file transfer protocol (ftp) site that enables the QE members to share data and findings with fellow researchers through out the world.  Peripheral equipment: laser printers, color ink-jet printers, a poster printer/plotter, scanners and a digital camera.