Existing Facilities and Equipment

Existing equipment and facilities at TAMIU within the earth science group consists of:

Weather

• Meso-scale weather network
• Spectrum Watchdog Dataloggers and Tipping bucket rain guages
• Complete database of all daily South Texas weather records

Computing

• Fully networked G4 Macintosch computers
• Peripherals including printers, scanners and monitors
• Portible GIS lab with latest ESRI software
• HP 1050c wide-format color plotter

Geochemical

• Portable spectrophotometer for field geochemical analysis
• pH meter

Geohydrology

• Groundwater simulation model
• Water level loggers
• Water flowmeter
• Darcy Permeability Columns

Geology

• Zeiss research-grade petrographic microscope
• Rock, mineral and fossil collections
• Rock saw
• Surveying equipment