Soil laboratory
GINYS-CREAF-013
Lucía Galiano
Infrastructure Coordinator
Installation of soil ecology for physical, chemical and biological analyzes of the soil, carried out, for example, to determine the concentration of certain nutrients, microbiology or communities present in the soil.
In recent years, the laboratory has also been used for ecotoxicological studies of contaminated and decontaminated soils, some of them based on the different bioindicators of the installation, such as Col·lèmbola ( Folsomia candida ), Oligochaete ( Enchytraeus crypticus ) and Isopoda ( Porcellionides sexfasciatus ).
The laboratory is equipped with a calcination furnace to dry carbonates, organic matter, etc .; a drying oven; a multiplate absorbance reader, which is very useful for measuring enzymatic activity; and several centrifuges. It is complemented by a smaller laboratory with Berlese funnels and a temperature-controlled incubation room (in addition to the incubators available in both laboratories).
Services
- Routine soil analyzes: texture, N Kjeldhal, P Olsen, pH, electrical conductivity and salinity, organic matter.
- Ecotoxicological tests with soil fauna and plants in the incubation chamber.
Equipment
- Standard gas extraction showcase.
- Soil sprayer.
- Oven stove 1000ºC.
- Incubation chamber.
- Vertical shaker.
- Precision balance.
- pH meter.
- Multiplate reader.
- Sedimentation bath.
- Large capacity centrifuge.
