Facilities

The Watershed Hydrology Group shares the Water Resources and Forest Soils and Hydrology laboratories, which are two lab facilities that 5 faculty (including McGuire) from the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation and the Virginia Water Resources Research Center share.  Facilities include 3 separate laboratory spaces totaling approximately 1900 sq. ft. plus a 960 sq. ft. headshed for soil and plant preparation and a walk-in drying oven, refrigerator, and freezer.  The laboratory space (~1200 ft2) is located in Latham Hall (ca. 2006), which is a building adjacent to Cheatham Hall. Each laboratory bench space is dedicated to specific activities – acid washing, sample digestion, weighing and extractions, filtering, or analytical equipment.

  • The Forest Soils and Hydrology Lab is in Latham Hall
  • Cheatham Hall is the home of the Dept. of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation

The Forest Soils and Hydrology Lab (pictured above) is also outfitted for full soil hydrologic property characterization.  Field- and lab-based constant-head permeameters, tension tables, and ring, Hood, and disk infiltrometers are available.

  • Vista-MPX CCD Simultaneous ICP-OES
  • Shimadzu Nexis GC-2030 Gas Chromatograph
  • Shimadzu GC-2010 Gas Chromatograph
  • Mars 6 Microwave Digestion System
  • Elementar Vario Max CNS Elemental Analyzer
  • IsoPrime 100 Mass Spectrometer and Vario MICRO Cube Elemental Analyzer
  • Shimadzu Total Organic Carbon Analyzer
  • Auto Analyzer III High Resolution Digital Colorimeter
  • TRAACS 2000 Auto Analyzer

Major analytical equipment (pictured above) includes: