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List of Field Equipment

Audio and Visual Equipment

  • Digital Compact Cameras
  • Digital SLR Cameras
  • Digital Video Cameras
  • Digital Action Cameras (GoPro)
  • Dictaphones
  • Thermal Camera

Surveying Equipment

  • Levelling Staffs
  • Levelling Tripods
  • Ranging Poles
  • Abney Levels
  • Automatic (Dumpy) Levels
  • Surveying Flags
  • Trundle Wheels
  • Total Stations
  • Measuring Tapes
  • Laser Scanners
  • Laser Distance Meter
  • Metal Detectors
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
  • Ground Penetrating Radar

Location and Navigational Equipment

  • Handheld GPS
  • Differential Global Positioning Systems (dGPS)
  • Clinometers
  • Compass
  • Compass Clinometers
  • Satellite Navigation Systems

Meteorological Equipment

  • Anemometers
  • Hygrometers
  • Whirling Psychrometer
  • Field Thermometers
  • HOBO Data Loggers and Weather Stations
  • Rainfall Simulator
  • Portable Met Station

Water Equipment

  • Portable Refractometers
  • Secchi Disks
  • Electromagnetic Current Meters (ECM)
  • Propeller Current Meters
  • Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP)
  • Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter (ADV)
  • Water Depth Sounders
  • Single and multi-parameter probes (pH, Temperature, Turbidity, Suspended Sediments, Conductivity, Total Dissolved Solids, Dissolved Oxygen, Oxidation Reduction Potential, Humidity and Salinity)
  • Multi-Parameter Water Quality Sonde (for in situ monitoring)
  • Multiparameter Photometer (Palintest 8000)
  • Van Dorn Water Samplers (Horizontal Configuration)
  • Automatic Water Samplers (ISCO)
  • Surber Samplers
  • River Nets
  • Mini-Disk Infiltrometers

Sampling and Coring Equipment

  • Russian Corers
  • Sediment Augers
  • Sand Augers
  • Ice Augers
  • Gouge Corers
  • Piston Corers
  • UWITEC Corer
  • Vibra Corers
  • Livingstone Corer
  • Hongve Corer (Open Barrel Corer)
  • Mackereth Corer (Pneumatic Corer)
  • Beeker Corer
  • Gilson Corer
  • Tree Corers
  • Grab Samplers
  • Bulk Density Tins
  • Kubina Tins
  • Geological Hammers
  • Stihl Saw

Geotechnical Equipment

  • Schmidt Hammers
  • Shear Vanes
  • Torvane Shear Device
  • Field Cone Penetrometer
  • Soil Compaction Tester
  • Wolman Plates
  • Calipers

Geochemical Equipment

  • Soil Testing Kit (Palintest SKW500)
  • Portable X-ray Fluorescence analyser (pXRF)

Geophysical Equipment

  • Ground Penetrating Radar
  • Magnetic Susceptibility Meters

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Safety Equipment

  • High Visibility Vests
  • Hard hats
  • Waders
  • Chest Waders
  • Dry Suits
  • Crampons
  • Gloves
  • Safety Glasses
  • Life Jackets
  • Satellite Phones
  • Emergency Beacons
  • Two Way Radios
  • Boat Radio
  • First Aid Kits
  • Bivvy Tents
  • Survival Bags
  • Ice Axes

 

Vehicles and Associated Equipment

  • Cars (Toyota Auris estate hybrid and Ford Rangers)
  • Van (Vauxhall Vivaro short wheel base)
  • Trailer
  • Inflatable Boats (Zodiak, Honda, Yamaha, Quicksilver)
  • Solid Hull Boat
  • Boat Engines
  • Sonar Depth Sounders