Infrastructure

Our experimental facilities

We provide over two sets of large outdoor flumes (benthic and hyporheic), several indoor flumes, hyporheic reactors, and water-sediment-soil mesocosms, operated by pumps.

  • Hyporheic outdoor flumes
  • Hyporheic reactors
  • Soil mesocosms
  • Indoor flumes

For more information, see WasserCluster Lunz

Labs and analytical instruments

Wassercluster has several general and thematic labs (e.g. hydrochemical lab, molecular lab, radionuclide lab, microbial ecology lab, etc.), a lake lab for courses and sampling, and a climate chamber.

Methods

  • Nutrient and organic carbon determination in water and sediments, including sediment and soil extractions
  • DOM spectrocopic analyses (absorbance, fluorescence)
  • Bacterial abundances in water, sediments, and biofilms via flowcytometry
  • Chl-a and pigment composition via HPLC
  • Photosynthetic effiency (PHYTO-PAM)
  • Activity of extra-cellular enzymes, EPS, ecoplates, micro-resp
  • Various catchment, floodplain, and stream models for trophic states, matter retention, and habitat availability
  • …

For more details about methods, please contact us

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