Laboratory

The EM Unit has dedicated, up-to-date equipment for preparing samples for electron microscopy and two electron microscopes. 

EM Unit laboratory looking north

EM Unit laboratory looking south

The typical end result of electron microscopical research is a high quality black and white photographic or digital image. And yes, electron micrographs are ALWAYS black and white unless they have been artificially coloured!

TEM of snow algae	Dinoflagellate Gonyaulax

Krill Euphausia superba

All our recent images, and a select library of scanned images are stored in digital form on our archival database in the Antarctic Division's Data Centre.