{"id":145,"date":"2018-08-10T05:32:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T05:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/?page_id=145"},"modified":"2023-06-02T14:37:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T18:37:53","slug":"program-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/program-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Program Resources and Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regarding campus facilities and laboratories, the ES Undergraduate Program has access to all available college and campus resources for research and academic activities. Course lectures are held at the College of Natural Sciences in classrooms equipped with projectors and Wi-Fi connections.\u00a0 Researchers\u2019 laboratory space is mainly located in the Facundo Bueso building on campus; some researchers have laboratory space in the College. Most researchers mainly maintain their laboratory facilities through external funding sources.<\/p>\n

The Environmental Sciences Program has a total of four teaching labs, including a GIS computer lab, a geophysics lab, a land use lab, and an environmental sciences lab equipped mainly for water quality analysis (turbidimeters, colorimeters, UV\/Vis spectrophotometers, incubators, DO meters, pH meters, conductivity meters, and a variety of test kits for nutrient and fecal coliform contamination by Hach, YSI, and others).<\/p>\n

The program has recently acquired state-of-the-art equipment such as an ICP-MS (Perkin Elmer) for the measurement of heavy metals, a CHNSO analyzer (Perkin Elmer) for the determination of the carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulfur, or oxygen content in organic and other types of materials, a Discrete Analyzer (Smartchem 2000) for the measurement of nutrients, and a 2-D acoustic doppler flow meter (Sontek Flowtracker) for the measurement of water motion in streams and shallow nearshore areas.<\/p>\n