Facilities

 Centre for Animal Research and Teaching (CART)
  • State of the art animal research and teaching facilities
  • Technical support and training
  • Commercial scale feed mill
  • Veterinary surgery, climate controlled rooms, post mortem room
  • Specialised equipment and laboratories

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Contact:

Justin Bailey
P: 02 6773 3395/ +61 408 409 142
E: jbailey@une.edu.au

 Arrawarra Coastal Field Station

The marine field station is located at Arrawarra Headland, on the northern New South Wales coast, adjacent to the Solitary Island Marine Park which supports substantial coral communities. The station was established in the late 1960's to provide a base for both teaching and research. The location of
the station is ideal, providing easy access to a full range of marine and estuarine habitats.

Accommodation, kitchen, laboratory facilities (including aquaria with flow-through sea-water) vessels (two ocean going and one for estuarine use) are available at the station. Limited computing facilities are available including access to the Internet.

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For enquiries regarding booking the Arrawarra Field Station please contact:

erstech@une.edu.au

Blood Gas Analyzer

Radiometer ABL800 FLEX

$6.00 per sample

Book online

The unit was designed for use on undiluted whole human blood and expired air.

The following parameters can be measured on blood

Parameter group Parameters
pH/blood gas pH (acidity)
pCO2 (carbon dioxide tension)
pO2 (oxygen tension)
Oximetry ctHb (total hemoglobin concentration)
sO2 (oxygen saturation)
FO2Hb (fraction of oxyhemoglobin in total hemoglobin)
FCOHb (fraction of carboxyhemoglobin in total hemoglobin)
FHHb (fraction of deoxyhemoglobin in total hemoglobin)
FMetHb (fraction of methemoglobin in total hemoglobin)
FHbF (fraction of fetal hemoglobin)
Electrolytes cK+ (potassium ion concentration)
cNa+ (sodium ion concentration)
cCa2+ (calcium ion concentration)
cC1- (chloride ion concentration)
Metabolites cGlu (D-glucose concentration)
cLac (L(+) - lactate concentration)
ctBil (concentration of total bilirubin in plasma)

The following parameters can be measured on expired air samples

Parameter group Parameters
Measured values pCO2 (carbon dioxide tension)
pO2 (oxygen tension)

Contact:

Tim Elliott
P: +61 2 6773 5198
M: +61 402 414 926
tellio22@une.edu.au

Calorimeter Bomb

This facility is available at commercial rates

Contact

erstech@une.edu.au

 Thin Section Facility

The School has facilities for the preparation of thin, polished thin and polished sections, including fluid inclusion plates.

Section manufacture includes thin sections, polished thin sections, polished blocks, doubly polished fluid inclusion plates, impregnation of soft or fractured samples, and K-feldspar staining.

The Thin Section Facility is available for research work undertaken by all students and staff of UNE.

Operated by:

Malcolm Lambert
P: +61 2 6773 2900
E: mlamber7@une.edu.au

 Decision Support Software - eDDServe
  • eDSServe offers educational access to the powerful decision support tools used in agriculture and natural resources, and was developed by the University of New England's DSS unit.
  • These software tools are commercially available, and are important in modelling grazing enterprises and ruminant nutrition.
  • eDSServe allows any students enrolled in a UNE teaching program access to almost any Windows application suitable for teaching purposes.
 Digital Camera and Microscope Facilities

Very high resolution (~23 MP) photos and videos of thin sections and smear slides, captured through a trinocular lens.

The facility is a Canon EOS 70D DSLR, mounted onto a Leica DM750P polarizing microscope.

Contact:

erstech@une.edu.au

Nikon Eclipse 90i with Brightfield and Differential Interference Contrast

- 3 band fluorescenence
- With DSRI1 Colour Digital Camera
- Compound microscope including high dry 60x obj.

For Induction please contact:

Professor Jeremy Bruhl
P: +61 2 6773 2429
E: jbruhl@une.edu.au

erstech@une.edu.au

 Engineering Facilities

ERS has provided an excellent laboratory environment to be used in elementary, mid-scale and advanced experimental investigations as foundations for developing new analytical work in areas of discipline interest/specialisation.

New equipment for the concrete and structural laboratories, including

  • a 300 kN Hydraulic Universal  Testing  Machine  with  long  gage  length  Extensometer,
  • 200  mm  G.L.,  25mm  travel  and  a  2,000  kN Compression Testing Machine with fully computerized and built-in data acquisition and data analysis systems, has been  purchased  from  Instron  USA.
  • multiple  data  logger  (including  strain  gauges),
  • LVDTs  as  well  as  new  laser sensors which  can  be  used  for  lab-based  and  filed-based  testings.

Existing equipment including:

  • a testing frame, which is equipped with a hydraulic jack with the capacity of 100 kN
  • hydraulic jack  with  a  maximum  capacity  of  500  kN  is  available  at  the  project area  of  the  engineering  building.
  • Surveying equipment was updated in 2013 to include total stations to precisely map the natural and built environment. The surveying store also includes basic engineering surveying equipment.
 Fluid Inclusion Facility

A USGS heating-cooling stage is available for fluid inclusion studies.

Administered by:

Dr Nancy Vickery
Phone: +61 2 6773 2496
Email: nvicker2@une.edu.au

 GIS Computer Facility
  • A networked facility with 50 PC computers dedicated to teaching geographic information systems and image processing.
  • The GIS facility for resource information systems, comprising Silicon Graphics workstation and a variety of PC's with a range of GIS software including ARCGIS and IMAGINE.
  • Field based spectro-radiometer, Magellan GPS systems.
 Greenhouse and Glasshouse Facilities

Botany Greenhouse, Mesocosm and Shadehouse facilities

For further information please contact:

erstech@une.edu.au

UNE Greenhouse Complex

(Greenhouse 1 and 2, Glasshouse, Shadehouse/Polyhouse)

For further information please contact:

Calista McLachlan
P: +61 2 6773 5283
E: cmclach5@une.edu.au

 Laboratories

Laboratory facilities include:

  • Chromatography Laboratory
  • Environmental Analytical Research and Carbon Laboratories
  • Fibre Measurement Laboratory
  • X-ray Laboratory
  • Land Use, Planning & Management Laboratory
  • Limnological Equipment & Laboratory
  • Meat Science Laboratory
  • Ecology Laboratories
  • Plant & Soil Laboratories
  • Wildlife Resources Laboratory
  • Water Resources Laboratory

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 Mineral, Rock, Fossil and Drill Core Collection

The School maintains a comprehensive collection of rock and fossil samples from research collections. These are predominantly from the New England region (the most comprehensive collection of New England rocks worldwide). Approximately 75,000 rock samples are catalogued.

The School also maintains a small core library, with a selection of drill core from Eastern Australia.

The Mineral, Rock, Fossil and Drill Core Collection is available for research work undertaken by all students and staff of UNE, as well as other universities and research institutions.

Curated by:

Malcolm Lambert
P: +61 2 6773 2900
E: mlamber7@une.edu.au

 Natural History Museum

Opened in March 2017, the UNE Natural History Museum is a redevelopment of the original Zoology Museum established in 1969. Located in the recently built Agricultural Education Building, the move into this modern teaching facility afforded UNE the chance to showcase material from our botanical, geological
and palaeontological collections along-side our comprehensive collection of zoological specimens.

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 N.C.W Beadle Herbarium

The N.C.W. Beadle Herbarium (NE) at UNE consists of c.100 000 vascular plant specimens, housed in a purpose built facility with excellent stereomicroscopes and specimen imaging equipment. Herbarium NE was the first university-only herbarium to deliver data to Australia's
Virtual Herbarium
and Atlas of Living Australia (c. 83 000 records from 2013). Herbarium NE is internationally recognised, and is able to exchange specimens with, borrow from and lend to other recognised herbaria.

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Herbarium NE data base

 Newholme Field Laboratory

Newholme is a commercially operated Field Laboratory located about 10 km north of Armidale. Its primary function is for teaching and research.

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 Rural Properties

The University of New England's Rural Properties are a unique natural resource supporting world-class research and teaching. Properties include:

  • Armidale Properties (Kirby & Laureldale Research Stations)
  • Newholme Field Laboratory
  • Tullimba, Uralla

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 Scanning Electron Microscope

JEOL SEM JSM-6010LV

$40.00 per hour

Book online

Resolution

4.0nm @ 20kV - WD 8mm

8nm @ 3kV - WD 6mm

15nm @ 1kV - WD 6mm

  • EDS Detector
  • Secondary Electron Detector
  • Backscattered Electron Detector
  • Robinson CL detector

Neoscope JEOL JCM-5000

$20 per hour

Book online

Magnification x 10 – x 20,000

  • Secondary Electron Detector
  • Backscattered Electron Detector

Neocoater MP-19020NCTR

$5.00 per operation

Book online

  • Sputter coater

Contact:

erstech@une.edu.au

Contact us

Natural Resources Building (W055)
University of New England
Armidale NSW 2351
AUSTRALIA


E: erstech@une.edu.au