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Laboratories

By St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

The USGS St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center has several laboratories. Explore details about a few of these below. 

    • Close-up of a Niskin bottle with a 100 microliter pipette held at the mouth

      St. Petersburg Carbon Analytical Laboratory

      The USGS-St. Petersburg Carbon Analytical Laboratory utilizes state of the art methods and instrumentation for quantifying carbon system parameters in aqueous samples.

    • A wall of Desmophyllum dianthus cup corals with bonus octopus neighbor.

      Coral Microbial Ecology Laboratory

      The coral microbial ecology group has an active research program identifying and characterizing the microbial associates of both tropical and cold-water (deep-sea) corals and their surrounding habitat. Current projects focus on coral disease dynamics, bacterial diversity, and using metagenomics to elucidate the functional roles of coral microbes.