Aquatic ecology laboratory

Aquatic ecology laboratory

The aquatic ecology laboratory uses its know-how in the following areas:

  • Sorting, identification and sampling of aquatic macroinvertebrates
  • Identification, sampling, biometry and marking of fish
  • Identification and sampling of aquatic flora
  • batrachological inventories
  • Physicochemical analyses and measurements (water from rivers, ponds, lakes and other watercourses)
  • Skeletochronology (scalimetry, otolithometry, etc.)
  • Telemetry (RFID, radio, acoustic, P-Sat)
  • Echo sounding

The laboratory is divided into two areas:

Laboratory in the old farm (3 equipped work places)

Laboratory in the central building (5 equipped work places)

 

Équipement(s): 
  • Simple binocular magnifiers
  • Leica 205C stereoscopic microscope fitted with camera and motor z for stacking photos
  • Tools for the identification of species of aquatic flora and fauna (literature, electronic keys, reference collections)
  • Oven, weighing machine, hood, cold chamber, freezer
  • Equipment for ecological diagnostics (laboratory and field):
    • Macroinvertebrates in watercourses (see IBCH, IBGN methods)
    • Biodiversity in watercourses (see IBEM method)
    • Fish farming population (fixed and portable electric fishing units, gillnets)
    • Instruments for physicochemical measurement (algaetorch, probes for O2, temperature, conductivity, current; tests; portable HACH laboratories, etc.)
  • Equipment for subaquatic diving
  • Mobile data loggers for measurement of temperature, pH, conductivity, depth, chlorophyll a.
  • Fixed data loggers, portable receivers, Oregon RFID transmitters
  • Fixed data loggers, portable receivers, ATS radio transmitters
  • VEMCO + mobile receiver with directional and omnidirectional hydrophones Fixed hydrophones
  • Pop-up Satellite Archival Tags (PSAT) Desert Star System
  • Horizontal transducer 120 KHz split-beam Simrad
  • Vehicles (field):
    • Motorboat 25 hp Dervinis 450 aluminium hull
    • 4x4 vehicle (common management with other research groups of the Institute in TNE)

Contact

Head of laboratory

HEPIA
Route de Presinge 150
1254 Jussy
Switzerland