{"id":"d58d435f-5e37-4aaa-92cd-43880acb70dc","uri":"https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/d58d435f-5e37-4aaa-92cd-43880acb70dc","type":"infrastructureRecord","title":"Water Laboratories","description":"The purpose of the UKCEH Water Labs at Edinburgh and Lancaster is to analyse water samples for a range of chemicals and freshwater biota.","metadataDate":"2025-04-09T09:24:56","resourceIdentifiers":[{"code":"https://catalogue-staging.ceh.ac.uk/id/b8a5329e-77f8-4fcc-bcf3-4d6044469579"},{"code":"https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/d58d435f-5e37-4aaa-92cd-43880acb70dc"}],"capabilities":"UKCEH Water Labs are equipped for high quality chemical analysis of water samples (including nutrient concentrations, pH, alkalinity, conductivity and chlorophyll a concentrations) plus microscopy facilities suitable for plankton analysis.","lifecycle":"The Water Labs provide an ongoing service for UKCEH research.  Analytical equipment in the Water Labs has an average lifespan of about 5 years and microscopes have a lifecycle of about 10-15 years.  Equipment is maintained and replaced on a constant cycle, either at end-of-life or as newer technologies become available.","uniqueness":"UKCEH Water Labs are unique in being able to rapidly process water quality and biological samples in parallel, providing high quality data to support process based understanding of freshwater ecosystems.","partners":"See UKCEH Lake Observatories.","locationText":"The Water Labs are based at UKCEH Edinburgh and UKCEH Lancaster","access":"The Water Labs are available to UKCEH and other researchers, usually through project collaborations with UKCEH freshwater groups at Edinburgh and Lancaster.","fundingSources":"UKRI-NERC National Capability funding: UK-SCaPE programme; plus research project grants and contracts.","scienceArea":"Water Resources","infrastructureCategory":{"value":"labsAnalysis","description":"Analysis labs","infrastructureClass":"Analytical facilities","uri":"http://vocabs.ceh.ac.uk/ri/labsAnalysis"},"infrastructureChallenge":[{"value":"Pollution","uri":"http://vocab.ceh.ac.uk/ri#Pollution"}],"owners":[{"displayName":"Linda May & Steve Thackeray","organisationName":"UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology","organisationIdentifier":"https://ror.org/00pggkr55","role":"owner","fullName":"Linda May & Steve Thackeray"}],"users":["See UKCEH Lake Observatories."]}