SSNS Facilities and Equipment
MNS Building
Opened in the Fall of 1997 and funded in part by a $2 million Federal grant, the 40,000-square-foot MNS building is home to the University's science and mathematics departments. MNS houses state-of-the-art laboratories, the marine biology wetlab with flowing sea water from the Mt. Hope Bay, a saltwater learning platform, computer facilities, lecture halls and faculty offices.
Building Contains
- Classrooms/Lecture Halls
- Department of Biology & Marine Biology
- Department of Chemistry & Physics
- Department of Mathematics
- Faculty Offices (Sciences and Mathematics)
- Greenhouse
- Laboratories
- Marine Biology Wetlab
Equipment
The department maintains a broad spectrum of state-of-the-art instrumentation for use in instruction and faculty and student research. Current equipment includes:
- Hewlett-Packard 8453 Diode Array Spectrophotometer
- Nicolet 380 Thermo FT-IR Spectrophotometer
- Varian Cary 5000 UV-Vis/NIR Spectrophotometer
- Jobin-Yvon Horiba Fluorolog 3 Fluorescence Spectrophotometer
- Continuum Minilite Nd-YAG nanosecond lifetime apparatus
- JEOL EXQ 300 MHz FT-NMR Spectrometer
- BAS CV-50W Voltammetric Analyzer
- Milestone DMA 80 Mercury Analyzer
- Perkin-Elmer Flame/Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
- ISCO 2350/2360 Gradient HPLC
- Buck Scientific BLC 10/11 HPLC w/UV and electrochemical detectors
- Varian Prostar HPLC w/UV and fluorescence detectors
- Waters Integrity LC-MS System
- Waters Alliance LC-MS System