Our tree ring laboratory offers ideal tools for preparing wood samples for dendrochronological research, including equipment for grinding wood samples and making microsections with different versions of core microtomes.
The laboratory includes equipment for monitoring tree ring growth and for collecting material from living trees and historical wooden structures.
Additional optical scanners, surface staining methods and special wood anatomical preparation techniques contribute to conducting dendroclimatological and dendroecological research and provide new, modern data.
The Walesch DENDROXRAY2 X-ray radiocarbon densitometer enables high-resolution, absolutely dated measurements of maximum latewood density for paleoclimatic analyses.
Four Lintab measuring devices and 20 additional binoculars enable the absolute dating of tree samples and precise measurements of annual growth.
- 100 Increment borers Haglöf Mora 400 mm – 1000 mm
- Cordless power drill Metabo BS18 LTX-3 BL QI + Power X3 DC torque attachment for sampling historical & living wood
- 4 Tree ring stations Lintab 6 – Rinntech including Stereo Microscopes Leica M80
- 20 Stereo Microscopes Olympus SZ51
- Biological Microscope Olympus CX41 for observations from 4x to 60x including polarizing condenser
- Sliding Microtomes WSL and belt grinding machine for sample preparation
- Rotary microtome Leica HistoCore Multicut
- Carousel tissue processor Slee MTP
- Tissue Embedding Center Medite TES 99
- Dendrometers Ecomatik for measuring tree girth
- Sap flow sensor SF 10
- Distance measuring equipment LTI TruePulse 360
- Infrared camera Testo 882
- Walesch DENDROXRAY 2 for measuring latewood density
- Time Series Analyses software
- Chainsaw Stihl MS201 TC-M
- Bandsaw Metabo BAS 261
- Walesch Dendrocut Twin Blade Saw
- Puncher Trephor for extracting microcores from living trees
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