{"id":2182,"date":"2025-01-16T12:40:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T11:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eeb.unipa.it\/campus-lab\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T12:25:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:25:03","slug":"campus-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eeb.unipa.it\/en\/campus-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The laboratory consists of:<\/strong><\/p>

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    a chemical-lab, equipped with instruments for the study of the flow of organic matter through the aquatic ecosystem;<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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    a wet-lab, for the study of biodiversity and community\/population ecology;<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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    a reading room (with more than 350 books and reports);<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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    a small PC-station room (with 9 PC workstations);<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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    an imaging room, for the observation of behavioural responses of organisms.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>

    These spaces are used daily by about 30 people (graduates, master\u2019s students, pH.D. candidates and post-doctoral researchers) with various technical and professional skills. In our Lab marine ecology research is conducted thanks to the use of advanced equipment, such as:<\/p>

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      Coulter Counter II for clearance rate experiments in filter-feeding organisms; Strathkelvin 782 meter, 1302 electrodes and a respirometry chamber to measure respiration of aquatic organisms (mainly benthic invertebrates such as mussels etc.);<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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      CHN analyser;<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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      spectrophotometer (Shimadzu 1800) and spectrofluorimeter (Jasco); equipment for chemical and trophic analysis in the sea and for sediment and animal tissue analysis (total organic matter, chlorophyll-a, nutrients, lipids, carbohydrates, proteins);<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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      3 pumps and 12 beakers for water filtration (47 and 25 mm diameter); hardware (2 PC-stations) and software for analysing and interpreting image-video of behaviour;<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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      1 optical microscope;<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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      4 binoculars;<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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      6 underwater cameras for recording behaviour of marine animals;<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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      1 FLIR B2 thermal camera;<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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      4 amplifiers to measure the heartbeat of invertebrates connected to a portable oscilloscope (FLUKE 125) plus 2 laptops equipped with Fluke View 3.0;<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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      4 laptops for field measurements;<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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      2 cells 3 m \u00d7 3 m (from 0-40 \u00b0C) with lamps to simulate different degrees of irradiance and fans to maintain humidity;<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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      10 aquaria (80 L) and 20 aquaria (10 L) used for keeping experimental organisms;<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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      1 intertidal aquarium (1 m \u00d7 1 m, h\u2009=\u200950 cm) to simulate tidal rhythms (in cell);<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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      equipment for Scope for Growth (16 beakers; in cell); Multiprobe instruments (Yellow Springs SD6000 plus 60 m of cable with fluorimeter) for acquisition of oceanographic data and sampling of waters (4 Niskin bottles, Secchi discs etc.), sediments (cores etc.), fauna (plankton and fish nets) and flora (nets);<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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      1 hydrophone for recording noise in the marine environment;<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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      1 telescope for field observations;<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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      a weather station.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Laboratory The laboratory consists of: a chemical-lab, equipped with instruments for the study of the flow of organic matter through the aquatic ecosystem; a wet-lab, for the study of biodiversity and community\/population ecology; a reading room (with more than 350 books and reports); a small PC-station room (with 9 PC workstations); an imaging room, for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2182","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.unipa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.unipa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.unipa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.unipa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.unipa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.unipa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2192,"href":"https:\/\/eeb.unipa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2182\/revisions\/2192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eeb.unipa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}