The Coastal Research Center offers equipment, data, and expertise to support coastal research. Questions about accessing any of the following resources should be directed to station staff.
The Coastal Research Center offers equipment, data, and expertise to support coastal research. Questions about accessing any of the following resources should be directed to station staff.
Fleet of shallow water research vessels (Carolina Skiffs, 21' -24') with skilled captains
Deep-water dock with 10 slips. The floating dock portion accommodates 3 boats, with additional dedicated space for sample processing and instrument deployment
Mesocosm array with unfiltered flow-through seawater (on dock without cover – optional shade) [add dimensions]. Available seasonally outside of freeze risk.
Field trucks (UVA use only; may be used by others accompanied by station staff)
Hand tools (shovels, rakes, mallets, etc)
Ice maker
Coolers, buckets
Plankton net and seine net (designated for general use)
Aquaria: Tanks, Bubblers
Communal use field safety gear :
Life jackets
Dive boots
Hip waders
Wetsuits
Snorkels
Weight belts
Gloves
Deionized water (spigots in shared labs)
Dissecting Scopes (6)
Chest and upright freezers
Refrigerators
Vacuum filtration array (6 samples, with pump)
Chemical storage lockers
Fume hoods (2)
Drying Ovens (8) and Muffle furnace (2)
High-Precision Balances, all of which receive professional calibration annually:
Ohaus Adventure
Mettler Toledo XS104
Mettler Toledo College
Sartorius LA64001S
Hitachi 200 UV-visible spectrophotometer
Other lab supplies
Glassware (beakers & flasks, graduated cylinders, petri dishes, BOD bottles)
Weighboats and tins
Dissecting kits
Mortar and pestles
Field sieves (for sediment, plankton, etc)
pH meters, salinometers, oxygen meters, incubators
A searchable archive of data collected near the CRC is available through the Organization of Biological Field Stations
Hourly meteorological data from Hog Island, Oyster Harbor, and Brownsville (Phillips creek)
Tide stations at Hog Island, at the CRC, and in Red Bank (published on NOAA tide-prediction web pages)
Marsh Flux Tower, which hosts an Eddy Covariance System that measures the land-air exchange of CO2, heat, and water. The tower also hosts proximal remote sensing measurements of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and surface reflectance in the visible and near-infrared wavelengths.
Trimble
The CRC facility is mounted with a Emlid Reach RS2 real-time kinematic (RTK) GNSS base station, and an Emlid receiver
Trimble R10 Model 2 RTK GNSS Global Positioning System (GPS)
Lasermark Rotary laser, and Pentax SC-5
Laser Total Survey Station are provided on site.
Drone-based data collection
DJI Phantom4 (capable of 4K/60fps video and 20MP photo)
DJI Phantom4 RTK (capable of collecting imagery with centimeter positioning data that can be used to create horizontally and vertically accurate 2d and 3d orthomosaics and photogrammetric models)
DJI phantom 4 Multispectral RTK (capable of collecting images across a large area using a multispectral camera array)
Primary data processing is conducted on site. Remote computer access is available for all post-survey processing.
UVA has site licenses for ArcGIS, Matlab, and many other analytical software packages.