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Equipment Manufacturers, Suppliers, and Resources

  • ADC Bioscientific – IRGAs, portable photosynthesis instruments
  • ADCON Telemetry – data acquisition, transfer, and visualization
  • Airgas – gases
  • ALA Scientific Instruments, Inc. – perfusion and superfusion, valve controllers, focal drug applicator, micropositioners. patch and voltage clamp amplifiers, data acquisition hardware/software, and accessories for electrophysiology
  • Alfa Aesar – chemicals
  • Alpha Omega Engineering – equipment designed to record and analyze electrical activity of the brain and nervous system
  • American Elements – manufacturer of rare earth and advanced material products; information on elements, including properties, safety data, and uses
  • AmeriFlux – equipment sources, tips, and techniques for eddy flux measurement
  • AMS Inc. – soil sampling equipment
  • Analytical Spectral Devices – portable spectroradiometers
  • Apogee Instruments – quantum sensors, instruments to measure shortwave radiation, photosynthetic radiation, infrared surface temperature, spectroradiometry, UV radiation, oxygen, net radiation, and chlorophyll concentration
  • APT Instruments – portable instruments, dataloggers, and sampling pumps
  • Aquamonix – sapflow and other equipment for measuring water transport and status – formerly Tyco Environmental Systems and before that Greenspan Technology
  • AutoMate Scientific, Inc. – automated perfusion systems, programmable valve controllers, components, and accessories
  • Axon Instruments, Inc. – instruments and software: microelectrode amplifiers, data acquisition and analysis, imaging, confocal microscopy – now Molecular Devices
  • Bartz Technology Corporation – minirhizotron cameras and other remote vision products
  • Bay Advanced Technologies – wholesale industrial distributor of pneumatic and electronic automation controls and fluid power products (formerly Bay Pneumatic)
  • Beckman Coulter – instrumentation
  • Ben Meadows – forestry equipment, field supplies
  • BioQuip – equipment, supplies, and books for entomology
  • Bosworth Instrument – test meters for industry, labs, and water quality monitoring
  • Bran+Luebbe – autoanalyzers
  • Campbell Scientific, Inc. – dataloggers, data acquisition systems, software, and climate and microclimate instrumentation.
  • CAS Dataloggers – data loggers and data acquisition systems
  • CE Elantech, Inc. – C-H-N-S Analyzers
  • Cianflone Scientific – blender mill for grinding soil samples
  • CID, Inc. – leaf area meters, portable photosynthesis systems
  • Clippard Miniature Pneumatics – manufacture of miniature fluid power and control devices
  • Cole-Parmer – scientific instruments and lab supplies
  • Conviron – growth chambers
  • Costech – consumables, combustion system, and zero-blank autosampler for elemental analysis
  • Datataker Pty Ltd – data logger and flexible data acquisition and data logging systems
  • Decagon Devices – soil water and other environmental measurements
  • Delta-T Devices – dataloggers, microclimate and soil sensors, porometer, leaf area
  • DeltaTRAK – dataloggers
  • Digi-Key – electronic components, cables, wires
  • Dickson – instrumentation
  • Dynamax, Inc. – manufactures and distributes equipment for plant transpiration, sap flow, water relations, soil moisture and photosynthesis; also equipment for meteorology, hydrology, and environmental science
  • EARS Plant Photosynthesis Meter – measures chlorophyll fluorescence.
  • Ecomatik – manufactures dendrometers, Equi tensometers, and sap flow sensors for ecophysiological studies
  • Elemental Microanalysis Ltd. – consumables for elemental analysis
  • Elementar Americas – CHN combustion analyzers and consumables
  • ESI Environmental Sensors, Inc. – soil moisture measurements
  • ESRI – GIS and mapping software
  • FieldWorker – data collection software and systems
  • Fisher Scientific – chemicals, lab supplies
  • Forestry Suppliers – forestry equipment, field supplies
  • Gempler’s – forestry equipment, field supplies
  • Genesee Scientific – cell and molecular biology supplies and general labware
  • GenTech Scientific – sells recycled analytical equipment, including gas chromatographs, mass spectrometers, etc.
  • Giddings Machine Company – soil sampling equipment
  • Global Scientific Supply – scientific instruments and laboratory supplies
  • Greenspan Technology – sapflow and other equipment for measuring water transport and status – now Tyco Environmental Systems
  • Hach – analyzers, instruments, and chemistries for water quality analysis – includes GLI International, Inc.
  • Hansatech Instruments – instrumentation for cellular respiration and photosynthesis studies
  • HEL Group – calorimeters, reactors
  • Hy-Lok USA – tube fittings and instrumentation valves
  • IES Corporation – repairs high-precision balances
  • Instrumart – industrial instruments, including water quality instruments, flow meters, and dataloggers
  • Isogeochem – stable isotope mass spectrometry discussion, resources, and links
  • IsoLife – stable isotope labelled plant products
  • Kipp & Zonen – instruments for the measurement of solar radiation and atmospheric properties
  • Labtech International – distributors of microplate technology, cell biology, laminar airflow, and fluoresence and luminescene readers and consumables
  • LECO Corporation – C-H-N-S analyzers and other equipment
  • LI-COR, Inc. – instruments for plant physiology, ecophysiology, and microclimatic measurements, including portable photosynthesis systems, infrared gas analyzers, leaf area meters, and PAR sensors
  • Magellan Products – GPS products
  • McMaster-Carr – industrial supplies for building field equipment
  • Mettler-Toledo – laboratory balances and scales
  • Molecular Devices – instruments and software: microelectrode amplifiers, data acquisition and analysis, imaging, confocal microscopy (formerly Axon Instruments, Inc.)
  • MO BIO Laboratories – Soil/Microbial DNA isolation kits
  • NovaLynx Corporation – weather monitoring instruments and systems
  • O.I. Corporation – instruments for the analysis of chemical compounds (including ALPKEM)
  • Ocean Optics – spectrometers and optical sensing accessories
  • Ohaus – balances
  • Omega Engineering, Inc. – wide range of measurement and control equipment including thermocouples, tubing
  • Onset Computer Corporation – HOBO data loggers
  • Opti Sciences – chlorophyll fluorescence equipment
  • Parr Instruments – calorimeters and related lab instrumentation
  • PDZ Europa – stable isotope mass spectrometers – now Sercon
  • Perkin-Elmer – C-H-N-S analyzers and other lab instrumentation
  • Phenotype Screening Corporation – imaging services providing visualization of whole plant root systems
  • Physical Acoustics Corporation – acoustic emission sensors for detecting xylem cavitation
  • Picarro – real-time gas analyzers for CO, CO2, H2O, CH4
  • PMS Instrument Corporation – pressure chambers
  • PP Systems – portable photosynthesis & transpiration systems, soil respiration, CO2/H2O gas analyzers, chlorophyll fluorescence, sap flow, oxygen electrodes, and spectrometers
  • Prenart Equipment – sampling equipment for soil and groundwater
  • Quark Glass – custom glassware
  • Sartorius – balances
  • Scott Specialty Gases – specialty gas products (such as calibration gases) and equipment
  • Sercon – Mass spectrometers (formerly PDZ Europa)
  • Sigma-Aldrich – chemicals
  • Skye Instruments – dataloggers, microclimate sensors
  • Soilmoisture Equipment Corporation – instruments for measurement and monitoring of soil, water, plant relationships
  • Spectrum Technologies – environmental monitoring equipment
  • Spex CertiPrep – ball mills and other equipment for sample preparation
  • Stable Isotope Suppliers – comprehensive list from Isogeochem
  • Swagelok – fluid and gas system components, connectors, valves, and tubing
  • ThermoFisher Scientific – stable isotope mass spectrometers, liquid chromatography systems. Now merged with Fisher Scientific and Dionex. Formerly Thermo Electron Corporation, before that Thermo Finnigan, and before that, Finnigan Corporation. Hard to keep track of all the corporate mergers!
  • Unity Scientific – near infrared (NIR) instrumentation, automated wet chemistry analyzers, and sample preparation equipment
  • US Balance – scales & accessories
  • Vaisala – O2 meters and other air quality monitoring equipment
  • vanEssen Instruments – groundwater monitoring instruments
  • VWR – wide range of lab supplies and equipment
  • Walz – chlorophyll fluorescence and gas exchange equipment
  • Waterloo Hydrogeologic – groundwater modeling software
  • Waters Corporation – mass spectrometry equipment (formerly Micromass)
  • Wescor – equipment for measuring soil water potential and osmometers
  • Zeta-tec – battery powered data loggers for measuring temperature, voltage, resistance, current, pulses, light levels, logic levels, and discrete time domain events

Please email suitable information to Rob Jackson.