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CSES Facilities
The CSES facilities include approximately 8000 sq. ft. of lab and office space completely refurbished in 1994 with support from the W. M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles, California. CSES occupies the 2nd floor South and West wings of the Ekeley Science building in the heart of the CU campus. Below is a list of the equipment available for researcher and student use. CSES also contains a 24-seat classroom for teaching, including 10 Windows workstations.
CSES Research Lab
Computers
- Two SUN Ultra 2 workstations
- One SUN Ultra 10 workstation
- 3 X-terminal displays
- Various PCs and Laptops
- Various peripherals, including digitizing tablet and large format plotter
- Numerous Gbytes of disk storage space
- ENVI (Environment for Visualizing Images) by Research Systems/Kodak
- ARC/INFO and ARC VIEW by ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute)
- IDL (Interactive Data Language) by RSI (Research Systems, Inc.)
- Statistical, mathematical, and graphics software packages
- Various software developed in-house
Lab and Field Equipment
- Garmin hand-held GPS receivers
- Trimble hand-held GPS receivers
- Automated X-ray diffractometer
- Digitally controlled, UV-IR spectroradiometer
- CARY NIR laboratory spectrophotometer
- 2 GER VIRIS spectrometers
- Hand held ratioing radiometer
- 2 ASD FieldSpec-FR spectroradiometers
- 1 Reagan 10 channel radiometer
- A fully equipped color darkroom
CSES Teaching Lab
Computers
- Ten 933 MHz Dell workstations
- Smartboard projection system
- Standard peripherals
Lab and Field Equipment
- Optronics radiometric calibration system (coming soon)
- Acton 0.5 m SpectraPro monochromator (coming soon)
- GPS base station and 2 field units (coming soon)
- 2 Licor LAI 2000 leaf sensors (coming soon)
- 2 Licor Line Quantum Sensors (coming soon)
Wessman's Lab
Computers
- HP 9000 workstation
- 4 X-terminal displays
- PCs and Macintoshes
- Standard peripherals
Lab and Field Equipment
- 2 Licor LI-1800 spectral imaging spheres
- 2 Licor LI-1000 data loggers
- 2 Licor line quantum sensors
- 5 Licor point quantum sensors
- ASD FieldSpec-FR spectroradiometer
- Trimble hand-held receiver and 4000 SSE GPS base station
- Fison's CHN elemental analyzer
- Effland carbon filter analysis system
- Optical leaf area index system
- Cyclotec microgrinder
- Soil grinder
- Drying oven combustion furnace
Cryosphere and Climate Lab
Computers
- 1 SUN Sparc server 1000 with 2 50-MHz processors
- 4 SUN Sparcs
- PCs and Macintoshes
- Standard peripherals
- Audio/Visual Aids
Lab and Field Equipment
- Meterological towers
- 2 Epply Pyradiometers
- 6 Epply Pyranometers
- 2 Campbell 3-D sonic anemometers
- 2 Campbell sonic anemometers
- Data loggers
- Shop materials and tools
- Standard peripherals
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