Electronics:

• laboratory for design, prototype testing and printed circuit layout
• laboratory for general equipment maintainence
• shop for printed circuit etching, fabrication, assembly and testing
• shop for fabrication of underwater cables

• a dual trace storage scope
• two general pupose dual trace scopes
• two precision voltage standards
• numerous digital and analog multimeters
• two frequency generators
• numerous other electronic support instruments

• dual temperature controlled salinity baths
• pressure calibration to 0.015% accuracy up tp 100 psi and upto 0.1% up to 1500 psi
• temperature calibration to 0.02^o C accuracy
• salinity calibration to 0.003 PPT accuracy

• Guildline autosol
• Hewlett/Packard quartz thermometer
• Amtek precision dead weight tester
• Amtek hydraulic dead weight tester

• a complete machine shop for precision machine work and large-scale fabrication
• gas, rear gas and electrical winding
• plastic composite fabrication
• mooring wire fabrication

• two Bridgeport mills
• two laths, 40^" x 10^" dia. capacity and 40^" x 16^" capacity
• electric welder
• two drill presses
• band saw
• two grinders
• two pressure test vessels:
  1. 10^" diameter by 60^" at 1500 psi
  2. 24^" diameter by 38^" at 100 psi
• Fenn rotary swedger
• numerous other small machine tools

Major equipment includes: fleet of small boats; acoustic doppler velocimeters (3-D); acoustic doppler current profilers; 2- and 3-D wind sensors; optical backscatter sensors; bottom-mounted pressure sensors; 2-D current sensors (MMB); bottom boundary layer instrumentation frames; sonar altimeters; all necessary moorings and associative hardware for successful deployments and retrievals; comprehensive suite of sedimentological and data processing laboratories and equipment.

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