Facilities

Researchers of the Marine Center are using a diverse set of equipment, instrumentation and modeling tools to study physical, geochemical and biological processes in the oceans. Below is a list of selected facilities available for marine research at UCLA including the responsible principal investigators. For more information, please contact the PIs directly. Note that the list is not complete and constantly growing.

Major Experimental and Fieldwork Facilities

Facilities	Responsible PI
Zodiac (30 ft.) with davit and installed equipment (e.g., echosounder, hydrophone), for field work	Jeroen Molemaker, Andrew Stewart, James McWilliams
UCLA Scientific Diving Program	Diving Safety Officer: Mike Anghera, 805-698-1004
Seawater system with aquaria	David Jacobs, Malcolm Gordon, Robert Eagle
Richard B. Gump South Pacific Research Station Moorea, French Polynesia	Gump Station Director: Neil Davies (ndavies@moorea.berkeley.edu) UCLA Faculty Advisor: Peggy Fong (pfong@biology.ucla.edu)
Field sampling equipment (e.g. core liner, water sampler)	Rich Ambrose, Tina Treude, Jeroen Molemaker
Flumes	Malcolm Gordon
Mesocosms	Rich Ambrose
Multicorer, for field work	Tina Treude

Major Analytical Instrumentation

Instrumentation	Responsible PI
Acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP), for field work	Jeroen Molemaker
CTD (conductivity, temperature, density) profiler with Niskin bottles, for field work	Jeroen Molemaker
Epifluorescence microscopy	Tina Treude
Gas chromatography	Tina Treude
Gas source mass spectrometry	Aradhna Tripati
Inductively-coupled plasma optical emission spectrophotometry with micronebulizer	Aradhna Tripati
Ion chromatography	Tina Treude
Scintillation counting	Tina Treude
Spectrophotometry	Tina Treude
Titration	Tina Treude
Molecular Ecology & Genetics Resources	Paul Barber

Small Lab Equipment

Equipment	Responsible PI
Autoclave	Tina Treude
Balance and microbalance on weighing table	Aradhna Tripati, Tina Treude
Centrifuge	Tina Treude, Paul Barber
Drying oven	Aradhna Tripati, Rich Ambrose
Muffle furnace	Tina Treude, Rich Ambrose, Aradhna Tripati
Oxygen optodes	Tina Treude
Porewater press	Tina Treude
Portable handheld underwater spectrometer	Kyle Cavanaugh
Sample drilling equipment	Aradhna Tripati
Sediment washing	Aradhna Tripati
Shaker	Tina Treude
Stereo binocular microscopes	Aradhna Tripati
Temperature incubators	Tina Treude
Vacuum lines	Aradhna Tripati
Water baths	Aradhna Tripati, Tina Treude
Rotating Incubator	Paul Barber

Ocean Modeling Tools and Facilities

Tools/Facilities	Responsible PI
Computing Cluster (160 cores)	Andrew Stewart
Computing Cluster (264 cores on UCLA Hoffman2)	Daniele Bianchi
GFDL Earth System Models, HIM, MITgcm, ROMS Agrif, West Coast ROMS, UCLA ROMS	Daniele Bianchi, Andrew Stewart, James McWilliams