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The
University of Maine offers numerous state-of-the-art
analytical facilities through a wide range of faculty
members and laboratories. These facilities support research
from atomic scales to global scales, and provide students
with access to instrumentation and field sites that
cover the spectrum of needs in microbial ecology and
environmental microbiology. Some of the relevant facilities
and sites include:
Field sites
include:
Darling
Marine Center
- SEM/TEM
and light microscopy systems
- A
variety of gas and liquid chromatographs and mass
selective detectors
- Atomic
absorption spectroscopy
- UV/Vis
and fluorescence spectroscopy
- Beta
and gamma radiation counters
- Facilities
and equipment for nucleic acid manipulation, including
PCR and sequencing
- Routine
analytical chemical and microbiological equipment
- A
variety of nearshore and coastal sampling vessels
and gear
- Flowing
seawater facilities (temperature controlled)
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