Lab Equipment
Inland Waters Sector
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.).
