The Estelle Siebens Science Center is a 70,000 square-foot building with 18 laboratories and three research areas. As an environmental science student, you will have regular access to labs and will carry out research and experiments using state-of-the-art equipment owned by BVU.
Environmental science is cross-disciplinary, often sharing resources with the chemistry and biology programs. The environmental science program utilizes many standard pieces of field equipment for aquatic, soil and plant assessment.
Equipment available to environmental science students includes:
- Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscope (NMR)
- Gas chromatography-mass spectrometer (GC-MS)
- Confocal Microscope
- Spectrophotometers
- Gene guns
- Sterile hoods
- UV and chemiluminescent imaging equipment
- Greenhouse with three environmental growth chambers
- Hach Test Kits
- Colilert equipment
- ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) kits
- Garmin GPS and ArcGIS (Geographic Information System) remote sensing technology
- Canoes and Johnboats
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