Field Instrumentation

Geotechnical in-situ testing and sampling

• Portable free fall penetrometer BlueDrop by BlueCDesigns
• Modular dynamic seabed cone penetrometer (ModFCPT) [in development]
• Soil Saber by GeoTAK field penetrometer and vane shear
• Gravity Corer by Aquatic Research Instruments
• Icelandic Piston Corer by Aquatic Research Instruments
• Grab samplers
• Dynamax WET150 and SM150T moisture gage
• Onset Hobo Soil Moisture gages
• Onset Hobo water level and pore pressure gages
• RBR SoloD wave wave gages and pore pressure gages

Geoacoustic Seabed Surveying and Monitoring

• EdgeTech 3400 OTS Ulta Light Sub-bottom Profiler System (4-24 kHz)
• EdgeTech 4125i Portable Side
• Scan Sonar System
• Unabara Z Axis-2F MAX Dual Frequency Hydrographic Echo Sounder and Seafloor Sonar
• Nortek Scour Monitor
• Nortek AquaDopp HR
• Kongsberg Mesotech MS-1000 Rotary Side Scan Sonar

Laboratory Testing Capabilities

• Grain size analysis and soil classification
• Atterberg Limits
• Water contents, bulk density, void ratios, relative density, porosity
• Undrained shear strength testing (direct shear, ring shear, triaxial shear testing)