The EAP Lab has wet lab (Onyx Bridge 466) and dry lab (Condon 265) facilities. The dry lab in Condon Hall is currently in the process of moving to Room 265, and will house a suite of microscopes and comparative collections of macrobotanicals and pollen from the Intermountain West.
The wet lab in Onyx Bridge is equipped with a fume hood, sink, and RO water line for chemical processing of archaeological and geologic samples for microscopic remains (pollen, parasites, starch). We are also equipped to pretreat organic samples for radiocarbon dating and partner with Penn State on a variety of archaeological chronology building projects.
Laboratory equipment includes stereo and dissecting microscopes, centrifuge (ROTOFIX 32 A), vortexes, heating blocks, analytical balance (Mettler Toledo standard LA Model LA204E 0.1 mg readability), electronic scales, and geologic sieves. Miscroscopes include one Olympus CX33 Microscope (10x-60x) with SIS-EP50 camera, one Richter Optica UX1-WiFi Digital WiFi Microscope (4x-100x), two Richter Optica S6-BMSQ stereo zoom trinocular microscopes (7x-45x) with boom stands, two Richter Optica S850 digital stereo zoom microscopes (8x-50x), and two Richter Optica S2D-SPS Digital (10x/30x) Stereo Microscope with a TOUPCAM attachment.
