Scientific offering

  • Active biomonitoring of environmental damages (ecotoxicity assays)
  • Atomic absorption spectrophotometer with graphite furnace (AAS-FG) PE -A/Analyst 600 with slurries inyector A800
  • Atomic fluorescence spectrophotometer (PSA) - detectors: Merlin y Scalibur.
  • Computers
  • Contaminanta analysis in environment and organisms
  • Contamination reports of industrial facilities
  • Contolled chambers to terrestrial and aquatic biaoassays
  • Design of local and regional pollution biomonitoring networks
  • Direct mercury analizator (DMA 80 Millestone)
  • Elemental analysis (C, N)
  • Environmental Specimen Bank
  • Equipment to sampling process (digestors, ovens, centrifuges, mills, centrífugos, conditioning chamber, precision balances, etc.)
  • EQUIPMENT:
  • Evaluation of plant physiological status
  • Flame atomic absorption spectrophotometer (AAS) PE 2100
  • Fluorescence clorofilic analizers (Fluorometer PAM-2000 y Mini -PAM, Heiz Walz GMBH,Germany)
  • Identification of physiological characteristics of interest to improving species
  • Leaf Area Meter, AM100, ADC Ltd,Hoddesdon, England.
  • Microdendrómeters (Type DC, Ecomatik, Dachau, Germany)
  • Non destructive measure of chlorophyll (SPAD-502, Minolta)
  • Optical microscopes
  • Oxigen electrode (ClarK) - Fluorescence- photosynthesis (DW2 Hansatech ltd)
  • Photosynthesis measure (Type LCA-3, Leaf Chamber PLC-3, ADC).
  • Plant production in woody and herbaceus species
  • Sampling equipment: 4x4 vehicles, GPSs, field sensors, etc.)
  • Specialized software especializado (Arc View GIS, BEAG 1.7, SPSS, etc)
  • Spectrophotometer UV-VIS (Spectronic 3000- diode array, PE)
  • Sspectroradiometer (UniSpec Spectral System, PP Systems).
  • Technical reports abourt ecotoxicity for public organisms and private companies
  • Temperature, radiation and humidity sensors; dataloggers (logger-4R, Zeta-tec; LI-100, LICOR)
  • Tensiometers (HydroSense, Skye Instruments, Wales, UK).
  • The biomonitoring studies and the ecosystems quality evaluations have a high level warranty of quality in all the steps (sampling, transport, storage, processing and analysis), stated in a Standardized Operations Procedures.
  • The ecotoxicological bioassays used are standardized and/or internationally approved.