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More than 11,000 square feet of laboratory space is available on the Texas A&M College Station campus for teaching and research in environmental engineering. This includes space for constant temperature rooms, chemical storage, autoclaves, cold storage, and major equipment operation. A wide range of equipment is available in these laboratories for environmental measurements. This equipment base includes gas chromatographs (GC), gas chromatograph-mass spectrometers (GC-MS), high pressure liquid chromatographs (HPLC), liquid chromatograph-mass spectrometer (LC-MS), ion chromatographs, inductively coupled plasma/mass spectrometer (ICP/MS), atomic absorption spectrophotometers (AAS), capillary electrophoresis, particle size analyzers, TOC analyzers, Microtox analyzer, bench top fermenters, research microscopes with epiflourescence and image processing, supercritical fluid extractors, anaerobic chambers, liquid scintillation counter, UV-Vis spectrophotometers, centrifuges, defined substrate bacterial assay equipment, incubators, FTIR spectrophotometer, jar test apparatus, aeration equipment, sedimentation columns, deep bed filter column, computer-aided titrimeter, turbidometers, pH meters, specific ion meters, field sampling kits, ozone monitor, and NOx monitor.
In addition to the laboratory facilities at the College Station campus, extensive environmental field capabilities are available in Corpus Christi. These include an environmental field facility on Corpus Christi Bay that is instrumented to provide real-time monitoring of gradients and fluxes in the bay. This facility includes two high frequency radar systems (25 MHz and 12 MHz) with multiple sensors and a real-time communications and data storage system; five real-time, in situ monitoring stations on the bay equipped with acoustic Doppler current profilers; hydro lab sondes to measure conductivity, temperature and dissolved oxygen; particle size analyzers; flash lamps to measure chlorophyll and hydrocarbons and various meteorological sensors. A 27-foot survey vessel is available with a wide range of equipment aboard for water quality analyses. Environmental facilities at Corpus Christi also include the Shoreline Environmental Research Facility (SERF), which simulates coastal environments for the study of processes affecting the fate, transport and remediation of contaminants. SERF includes nine wave tanks, on-site laboratories, a machine shop, and offices.
