Difference between revisions of "Equipment inventory"

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Before using any equipment, use the check-out sheet on the box.

Standard field kit, i.e. what you need to be safe with your group

• route plan (and map if need be)
• first aid kit
• sunscreen, if not included in first aid kit
• flashlight
• radio / phone
• plastic tarp in case of rain/snow
• extra warm clothes
• extra snacks
• extra water
• repair kit

Up the mountain box:

• Digital thermometer (2 ea)
• Brunton Atmospheric data meter (2 ea)
• Clinometer
• IR thermometer (4 ea)
• Environmental meter (light, temp, humidity, etc)
• RYOBI Laser thermometer
• Altimeter (analog)
• Measuring tape, 20 meter
• Measuring tape, 60 inches / 152 cm
• NOAA Weather radio
• Soil color book

Field guides

• Edible Wild Plants
• Bugs and Slugs
• Animal Tracks
• Butterflies and Moths
• Alien Invaders
• Familiar Butterflies
• Western Trees
• Western Wildflowers
• Southwestern United States
• Hummingbirds
• Clouds and Weather
• Mountain Wildflowers of Southern Arizona
• Mountain Trees of Southern Arizona
• Simon and Schuster guide to Rocks and Minerals

Scientific equipment

Dendrochronology:

• Increment borers (2) & materials for maintenance - refer to the Proper Care and Feeding of Increment Borers before use!
• LTRR Outreach Kit

• Water testing kit (2 ea)

Geosciences/Soil Science:

• NPK soil test kit
• Soil conductivity & temperature meter
• Soil color book
• Rock pick hammer (2 ea)
• Rock crushing hammer
• Trowels (2 ea)
• 12 inch soil corer
• Safety goggles (11 ea)
• Loupes (11 ea)
• Mineral test kit (2 ea)
• HCl bottles (9 ea)
• Super-absorbant diaper polymer--modeling a solid under pressure, like the mantle
• Silly putty (12 ea)
• Pumice (bag)

Rock/Mineral/Fossil samples:

• Stromatalite with pisolites
• Obsidian (from Mono Crater, near Mono Lake in California)
• Pumice, very likely a volcanic bomb due to the oblong holes that could have been created upon ejection
• Conglomerate, layered with fossilized teeth of some type of swimming reptile; Cretaceous marine from Utah
• Copralite--fossilized poop, Jurrasic age, most likely some type of dinosaur

Fossils for giving away:

• Ammonites--extinct cephalopods (like squid), died at the end of the Cretaceous (Chixulub impact)
• Straight-shelled nautiloids--closely related to ammonites, living relative is the nautilus
• Brachiopods--Extremely common, but most died at the end of the Permian (before the rise of the dinosaurs), look similar to clams and were filter feeders like clams (clams existed at the time, but were rare and became more abundant after the extinction of the brachiopods)
• Gastrolites--stomach stones, probably from a stegasaurus or brachiosaurus (two dinosaurs found at this particular site in Northern Utah), late Jurrasic
• Triassic crayfish--freshwater, could have been from a seasonal lake or pond with a seasonal event that could have covered critters in a death assemblage

Hydrology:

• Water pH meter
• Infiltration rings (3 sets)
• Spray bottle

Ecology:

• Leaf press Kit
• Leaf pack experiment kit
• 1 meter quadrats (10 ea)
• Macroinvertebrate kit

Entomology:

• Various collection supplies
• Mounting board and pins
• Two way bug viewer (2 ea)
• Butterfly net (2 ea)
• Blacklight flashlights (3 ea)

Microbiology:

• Life in the Soil slide set
• Petri dishes (40+)
• Glass slides and coverslips (100+)
• 16 x 125 mm plastic test tubes with caps (25 ea)
• Gram stain kit (2 ea)
• Nitrile gloves--Small (1 box), Medium (1 box), Large (2 boxes)
• Kimwipes (3 boxes)
• Parafilm (1 box ea of 2 in and 4 inch rolls)
• 95% Ethanol, 2/3 of 1 liter
• Plastic inoculation loops
• Glass sterilization beads, 1 oz
• Immersion oil
• Sterile pipettes (3 ea)

General:

• Specimen jars (12 ea)
• Metal collection containers (34)
• Plastic weigh boats (20 ea)
• Magnifier – 4 inch (4 ea)
• Magnifier – 3 inch (2 ea)
• Hand-held 30x mini microscopes
• Stainless steel tweezers
• Flagging--orange survey tape (11 rolls)
• 50 meter tapes (2 ea)
• etrex GPS units (5 ea)
• Compass (5 ea)
• Infrared remote camera (1 ea)
• Portable bunsen burner
• Graduated cylinder, 10 ml (2)
• Graduated cylinder, 500 ml
• Various collection tubes and canisters
• Digital scales (2 ea)
• Glass equilateral prisms, 100 mm x 25 mm (5 ea)
• Balloons

• Compound microscope (2 ea)
• Projector
• RSpec Explorer camera and software, [1]

Inquiry group project boxes:

Teambuilding equipment

• Rope (3 ea)
• Blindfolds (20 ea)
• Kazoo (5 ea)
• Blue sitting mats (20 ea)

Teaching supplies

• metal clipboards
• portable whiteboards
• Meter stick (2) / Yard stick (9)
• Safety radios (not currently in use)
• First aid kits
• Wasp nest
• Rubber skull
• Dehydrated bat