Facilities and Equipment

Aquaculture Facilities and Equipment

The great thing about the º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ Aquaculture Hub is that we have lots of facilities that you can make use of.

For instance, in Shetland we have a Marine Hatchery and in Oban a Research Aquarium.  We have genetics labs in Inverness, and various research vessels and instrumentation.

  • You may have a particular interest in specific instrumentation, laboratories or vessels. 
  • We have an in-house technical support team to help you from design actually running tests.

If you would like a tour, or for us to talk you through what we have, and how it could help you.  Why not Contact Us and have a tour and discuss your specific requirements. 

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  • The Marine Hatchery
  • The Alan Ansell Research Aquarium
  • Research Marine Farm Sites
  • Seaweed Nursery

Survey Equipment

  • Hydrographic, biological, chemical, sonar (multibeam, sidescan, etc.), ADCPs, AWACs, wave buoys, met stations, CTDs, video, etc.

Sampling Equipment

  • Seabed, oceanographic, plankton, water quality, fisheries, etc.

Marine Robotics

  • Flying and diving, with qualified pilots and specialist services

Modelling Services

  • Ocean and atmosphere
  • Cell culture laboratory
  • Biochemistry and functional assay laboratory
  • Chemistry
    • HPLC, SEM, ICP-OES, GC, etc.
  • Microbiology
  • Molecular biology and genetics laboratory
    • High throughput DNA sequencing capacity and dedicated environmental DNA laboratory
  • Mass spectrometry suite
  • Bioinformatics and data mining tools

For more detailed information on particular facilities, equipment, vessels and contact details please visit our .

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