Laboratory Equipment – Inland Waters Research

• Screening and identification of benthic macroinvertebrates
• Evaluation of ecological quality of surface waters
• Ecology of macroinvertebrate organisms

Equipment:

• Stereoscopes (2 Olympus SZX10- one with a digital camera, 1 Leica MZ8, 1 WILD),
• inverted microscope with camera (WILD).

• Identification of the major ions: Ca2+, Mg2+, K+, Na+, Cl -, SO42-
• Determination of nutrients (NO2-NO3-, PO43-, NH4 +, Total Nitrogen, Total Phosphorus, Silicates)
• Determination of alkalinity and hardness
• Determination of total particulate matter

The quality control of chemical analyses is done ​​by the analysis of certified reference standards (CRM). The laboratory equipment is certified.

Equipment:

• Ion Analyzer (Metrohm),
• Spectrophotometer UV / VIS Pharo 300 (Merck),
• Automatic titrator,
• Tim 900 with autosampler Sac 80 (Radiometer),
• Accessories (Production system for chemically ultrapure water, Thermal reactor, Electric Oven, Precision weighting devices, pumps, etc.).

• Numerical weather prediction
• Atmospheric models at global and large mesoscale
• Operational Meteorology and Oceanography (design, development, evaluation)
• Water cycle and energy (theory and numerical models)
• Development and implementation of meteorological data assimilation techniques
• Interaction in the system soil – water – atmosphere (theory and development of algorithms in numerical models)
• Study intense weather phenomena (theory and numerical models)
• Study and prediction of soil erosion and the mechanisms of production, transport and deposition of soil dust particles (theory and numerical models).

Equipment:

• Computer performance : BladeSystem c7000 enclosure with 16 HP Proliant BL460c G1 server blades: 10 E5345 (20 Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.3 GHz processors) and 6 E5405 (12 Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 2.0 GHz processors),
• 4 Workstations Linux-based (2 Quad and 2 Dual cores processors) Total storage capacity 10 TB.

• Experimental farming of fish that are endemic in Greek freshwaters
• Biology of freshwater fishes of Greece (reproduction and nutrition studies)
• Morphology – morphometry and young adult life stages
• Detailed morphometry of fish with high  resolution digital image analysis system

Equipment:

• 10 tanks of varying capacity (three with a maximum capacity of 453 L),
• filter systems for continuous water purification (2) Devices for UV disinfection (2),
• Stereoscopes (Nikon, Olympus, Wild),
• video cameras (Sony, Olympus),
• Digital cameras Canon (2),
• TV and Video system (Sony),
• precision Electronic scales (Sartorius, Phillips, Navigator),
• Digital image analysis system.