New research equipment RI-SI-LifeWatch
RESEARCH CENTRE OF THE SLOVENIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS
TITRATOR
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: to detect alkalinity, overall hardness, calcium content and other ions in water samples (chlorides, sulphates, ammonium…).
ULTRAPURE WATER SYSTEM
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: for the needs of chemical and microbiological analyses.
ULTASONIC BATH
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: for cleaning and liquid preparation.
ION CHROMATOGRAPHY
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: to determine the concentrations of selected anions and cations in water samples.
INCUBATOR
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: for cultivation of microorganisms.
FREEZER -80 ℃
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: for storage of biological material.
BENCHTOP FLUOROMETER FOR QUANTIFICATION OF NUCLEIC ACID
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: for determination of nucleic acid concentration for further applications, e.g. sequencing, molecular cloning.
WORKSTATION FOR PREPARATION OF PCR REACTIONS
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: for preparation of reaction mixtures in molecular biology in a way to avoid environmental contamination.
PCR THERMAL CYCLER
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: for specific amplification of nucleic acid fragments.
STAND-ALONE PLATFORM FOR DNA AND PROTEIN GEL IMAGING
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: for visual monitoring of the performance of nucleic acid isolations, PCR reactions, isolation of nucleic acid fragments, and image processing.
EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE WITH DIGITAL CAMERA
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: for microbiological research.
FT-IR MICROSCOPE WITH AN INTEGRATED ATR CRYSTAL
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: for microplastic analyses in samples.
MICROPLASTIC SEPARATOR
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: separator by density and particle size in sediment samples.
EQUIPMENT FOR DIAGNOSING LIQUID INCLUSIONS
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: in determining the crystallization temperature and the proportion of salt water in aqueous solution.
WAVE-DISPERSION X-RAY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETER (WDXRF)
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: fot determining the elemental composition of geological samples (rocks, sediments, minerals and crystals).
FIBER TENSILE HARDNESS TESTER
Location: Jovan Hadži Biological Institute ZRC SAZU - Research Station ZRC SAZU Maribor (Eastern Slovenia Cohesion Region)
Use: for quantification of mechanical properties of biological materials under tensile loads.
CLIMATE CHAMBER
Location: Jovan Hadži Biological Institute ZRC SAZU - Research Station ZRC SAZU Maribor (Eastern Slovenia Cohesion Region)
Use: for the rearing of animals or plants under constant laboratory conditions.
TEMPERATURE GRADIENT PLATE
Location: Jovan Hadži Biological Institute ZRC SAZU, Zagorica - Ig (Western Slovenia Cohesion Region)
Use: to investigate the responses of small organisms (e.g., seeds, plants, insects, microorganisms) to the temperature gradient in the environment.
EQUIPMENT FOR DIGITALIZATION OF NATURAL SCIENCES
Location: Jovan Hadži Biological Institute ZRC SAZU, Zagorica - Ig (Western Slovenia Cohesion Region)
Use: for the digitization of natural history collections (herbariums, entomological collections), for scanning and storing labels, and for presenting the collection in an online database.
TAXONOMIC PHOTOGRAPHY SYSTEM
Location: Jovan Hadži Biological Institute ZRC SAZU, Zagorica - Ig (Western Slovenia Cohesion Region)
Use: for high-quality photography of small to small organisms, which has established itself in taxonomy over the last decade (describing and revising species descriptions), and for digitizing biological collections.
BEHAVIOR OBSERVATION, TREKKING AND ANALYSIS SOFTWARE
Location: Jovan Hadži Biological Institute ZRC SAZU, Zagorica - Ig (Western Slovenia Cohesion Region)
Use: to analyze animal behavior.
MEASURING AND ANALYTICAL SYSTEM OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACTIVE RADIATION
Location: Jovan Hadži Biological Institute ZRC SAZU, Zagorica - Ig (Western Slovenia Cohesion Region)
Use: to calculate the leaf area index in herbal vegetation based on the measurement of photosynthetically active radiation. It can be used both in crops of cultivated plants and in (semi) natural meadow vegetation.
LABORATORY CENTRIFUGE
Location: Jovan Hadži Biological Institute ZRC SAZU, Zagorica - Ig (Western Slovenia Cohesion Region)
Use: for refrigerated centrifugation of microtiter plates, deep-well plates and 1.5 ml epic.
RUGGED LAPTOP AND RUGGED TABLET
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: to collect data from field dataloggers.
DRONE
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: for aerial photos and videos.
AIR SAMPLING DEVICE
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: to detect the presence of microplastics.
METEOROLOGICAL STATION
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: for monitoring of weather conditions on surface.
TERRESTRIAL LIDAR
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: for 3D mapping surface and underground topography.
DOPPLER METER
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: for measuring large water flows.
DEVICE FOR MEASURING WATER FLOW AND VELOCITY IN CAVE CHANNELS
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: for hydrogeological studies.
AUTOMATIC DATALOGGERS AND MULTIMETER
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: for automatic recording of physical and chemicalgroundwater parameters. Multiparameter probes measure selected physical (temperature, pressure, conductivity, turbidity) and chemical (pH, chlorides, dissolved oxygen, presence of artificial tracers) parameters, and small portable recorders measure physical (temperature, pressure, conductivity) parameters.
CAVE BOAT
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: to transport research equipment.
UNDERWATER DRONE
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: for groundwater exploration.
SEARCH SONAR
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: for high-resolution 3D imaging of a proteus in an underwater cave environment.
STATIONARY INFRARED VIDEO CAMERAS
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: za visokoločljivo IR video snemanje vedenja proteusov v kraških izvirih ali jamah.
TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT SENSORS
Location: Jovan Hadži Biological Institute ZRC SAZU - Research Station ZRC SAZU Maribor (Eastern Slovenia Cohesion Region)
Use: for field temperature measurement.
ELECTRICAL TOMOGRAPHY METER
Location: Jovan Hadži Biological Institute ZRC SAZU, Zagorica - Ig (Western Slovenia Cohesion Region)
Use: for measuring the electrical resistance of the soil, mainly for determining the depth of sediments and soils under vegetation, for exploring underground structures of surface relief forms (sinkholes, landslides, paleo-lathes), for detecting underground karst caves and exploring other karst phenomena, for exploring groundwater, waste and other ecological and environmental problems.
BIRD-RINGING DATABASE
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: for the storage and procesing of ringed bird data.
SOFTWARE LICENSES - Global Mapper, Surfer, AutoCAD, CorelDRAW
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: for mapping and processing of research data.
COMPUTER AND SERVER INFRASTRUCTURE
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: to establish the LifeWatch-SI data center and node.
CAMERAS
Location: Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU, Postojna (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
Use: to document expeditions to caves and to inspect other karst phenomena.
UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR:
Location: Faculty of Natural sciences and Mathematics of the University of Maribor (Eastern Slovenia cohesion region)
LONG-TERM DATA CAPTURE DEVICES - TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY (DATALOGGER)
The equipment is intended for field measurements of temperature and humidity in the air.
METEOROLOGICAL STATION
The equipment is designed to accurately capture meteorological parameters at a given location.
INSTRUMENT WITH PROBES FOR MEASURING TEMPERATURE, CONDUCTIVITY, PH AND OXYGEN
LONG-TERM DATA ACQUISITION DEVICES - WATER AND SOIL QUALITY (DATALOGGER)
The equipment is intended for long-term capture of field measurements of water and soil quality.
DAVIS RADIATION SHEELD
The equipment is intended for standardization of data in the field.
MICROSCOPE CAMERA WITH SOFTWAR
The equipment is intended for photographing and analyzing microscopic slides.
GPS DEVICES - HIGH PRECISION GPS DEVICE (GNSS)
The equipment is intended for precise determination of coordinates in the field.
STEREOMICROSCOPE WITH SOFTWARE AND CAMERA
The equipment is intended for photographing and analyzing macroscopic preparations.
THERMAL CAMERA WITH HIGH FREQUENCY IMAGE CAPTURE
The equipment is intended for spatial thermography.
CAMERA - CAMCORDER
The equipment is intended for recording and analyzing animal behavior.
UPS UNIT
The equipment is designed to ensure uninterrupted work and prevent data loss on the computer.
UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA:
Location: Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana
MULTIFUNCTIONAL WATER QUALITY METER
The equipment is intended for monitoring the quality of surface aquatic ecosystems in Slovenia, with an emphasis on monitoring the state of water quality in Lake Bohinj.
RESEARCH MICROSCOPE, RESEARCH STEROMICROSCOPE, SCHOOL MICROSCOPE, SCHOOL STEREOMICROSCOPE
The equipment is intended for visualization techniques, analysis of morphology and anatomy of various organisms.
DATALOGGER
The equipment is intended for monitoring the quality of cave and spring water at locations where proteus live.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY:
Location: Marine Genomics Laboratory of the National Institute of Biology, Marine biological station Piran (Western Slovenia cohesion region)
REAL-TIME DNA AMPLIFIER
The equipment is designed to amplify nucleic acids in a variety of biologicals samples, for very sensitive real-time nucleic acid quantification allowing for a variety of applications such as the detection of specific parts of nucleic acids by predetermined starting oligonucleotides, detection of gene expression, etc.
LABORATORY CENTRIFUGE
The equipment is intended for the analysis of various biological and non-biological samples, namely the separation of the components of the samples on the basis of centrifugal force.
FORESTRY INSTITUTE OF SLOVENIA:
Location: Laboratory for Forest Ecology of the Forestry Institute of Slovenia
MICROCLIMATIC AUTOMATIC STATION FOR MEASURING AIR TEMPERATURE, RELATIVE HUMIDITY, SOIL TEMPERATURE, SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT
The equipment is intended for measuring the temperature and relative humidity of the air and the temperature of the soil moisture content.
FIELD CAMERAS TO MONITOR THE PHENOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF TREES
The equipment is designed to monitor the phenological development of trees.
DENDROMETER
The equipment is intended for continuous monitoring of tree increments and microclimate at selected locations of research plots in the Eastern Cohesion Region.
LABORATORY DEVICE FOR PREPARATION OF LABORATORY PURE WATER
The equipment is intended for the preparation of laboratory water type II, which is a condition and basis for all types of analysis in the Laboratory of Forest Ecology. The equipment includes a Millipore Elix device with an electrodeionization module, a 60 L purified water tank and a softening device that performs the initial purification of tap water.
SPECTRUM ANALYZER
The equipment is intended for measuring signals in the high frequency range in the manufacture of antennas for RF devices.