Equipment Manufacturers, Suppliers, and Resources

ADC Bioscientific - IRGAs, portable photosynthesis instruments
ADCON Telemetry - data acquisition, transfer, and visualization
Airgas - gases
ALA Scientific Instruments, Inc. - perfusion and superfusion, valve controllers, focal drug applicator, micropositioners. patch and voltage clamp amplifiers, data acquisition hardware/software, and accessories for electrophysiology
Alfa Aesar - chemicals
Alpha Omega Engineering - equipment designed to record and analyze electrical activity of the brain and nervous system
American Elements - manufacturer of rare earth and advanced material products; information on elements, including properties, safety data, and uses
AmeriFlux - equipment sources, tips, and techniques for eddy flux measurement
AMS Inc. - soil sampling equipment
Analytical Spectral Devices - portable spectroradiometers
Apogee Instruments - quantum sensors, instruments to measure shortwave radiation, photosynthetic radiation, infrared surface temperature, spectroradiometry, UV radiation, oxygen, net radiation, and chlorophyll concentration
APT Instruments - portable instruments, dataloggers, and sampling pumps
Aquamonix - sapflow and other equipment for measuring water transport and status - formerly Tyco Environmental Systems and before that Greenspan Technology
AutoMate Scientific, Inc. - automated perfusion systems, programmable valve controllers, components, and accessories
Axon Instruments, Inc. - instruments and software: microelectrode amplifiers, data acquisition and analysis, imaging, confocal microscopy - now Molecular Devices
Bartz Technology Corporation - minirhizotron cameras and other remote vision products
Bay Advanced Technologies - wholesale industrial distributor of pneumatic and electronic automation controls and fluid power products (formerly Bay Pneumatic)
Beckman Coulter - instrumentation
Ben Meadows - forestry equipment, field supplies
BioQuip - equipment, supplies, and books for entomology
Bosworth Instrument - test meters for industry, labs, and water quality monitoring
Bran+Luebbe - autoanalyzers
Campbell Scientific, Inc. - dataloggers, data acquisition systems, software, and climate and microclimate instrumentation.
CAS Dataloggers - data loggers and data acquisition systems
CE Elantech, Inc. - C-H-N-S Analyzers
Cianflone Scientific - blender mill for grinding soil samples
CID, Inc. - leaf area meters, portable photosynthesis systems
Clippard Miniature Pneumatics - manufacture of miniature fluid power and control devices
Cole-Parmer - scientific instruments and lab supplies
Conviron - growth chambers
Costech - consumables, combustion system, and zero-blank autosampler for elemental analysis
Datataker Pty Ltd - data logger and flexible data acquisition and data logging systems
Decagon Devices - soil water and other environmental measurements
Delta-T Devices - dataloggers, microclimate and soil sensors, porometer, leaf area
DeltaTRAK - dataloggers
Digi-Key - electronic components, cables, wires
Dickson - instrumentation
Dynamax, Inc. - manufactures and distributes equipment for plant transpiration, sap flow, water relations, soil moisture and photosynthesis; also equipment for meteorology, hydrology, and environmental science
EARS Plant Photosynthesis Meter - measures chlorophyll fluorescence.
Ecomatik - manufactures dendrometers, Equi tensometers, and sap flow sensors for ecophysiological studies
Elemental Microanalysis Ltd. - consumables for elemental analysis
Elementar Americas - CHN combustion analyzers and consumables
ESI Environmental Sensors, Inc. - soil moisture measurements
ESRI - GIS and mapping software
FieldWorker - data collection software and systems
Fisher Scientific - chemicals, lab supplies
Forestry Suppliers - forestry equipment, field supplies
Gempler's - forestry equipment, field supplies
Genesee Scientific - cell and molecular biology supplies and general labware
GenTech Scientific - sells recycled analytical equipment, including gas chromatographs, mass spectrometers, etc.
Giddings Machine Company - soil sampling equipment
Global Scientific Supply - scientific instruments and laboratory supplies
Greenspan Technology - sapflow and other equipment for measuring water transport and status - now Tyco Environmental Systems
Hach - analyzers, instruments, and chemistries for water quality analysis - includes GLI International, Inc.
Hansatech Instruments - instrumentation for cellular respiration and photosynthesis studies
HEL Group - calorimeters, reactors
Hy-Lok USA - tube fittings and instrumentation valves
IES Corporation - repairs high-precision balances
Instrumart - industrial instruments, including water quality instruments, flow meters, and dataloggers
Isogeochem - stable isotope mass spectrometry discussion, resources, and links
IsoLife - stable isotope labelled plant products
Kipp & Zonen - instruments for the measurement of solar radiation and atmospheric properties
Labtech International - distributors of microplate technology, cell biology, laminar airflow, and fluoresence and luminescene readers and consumables
LECO Corporation - C-H-N-S analyzers and other equipment
LI-COR, Inc. - instruments for plant physiology, ecophysiology, and microclimatic measurements, including portable photosynthesis systems, infrared gas analyzers, leaf area meters, and PAR sensors
Magellan Products - GPS products
McMaster-Carr - industrial supplies for building field equipment
Mettler-Toledo - laboratory balances and scales
Molecular Devices - instruments and software: microelectrode amplifiers, data acquisition and analysis, imaging, confocal microscopy (formerly Axon Instruments, Inc.)
MO BIO Laboratories - Soil/Microbial DNA isolation kits
NovaLynx Corporation - weather monitoring instruments and systems
O.I. Corporation - instruments for the analysis of chemical compounds (including ALPKEM)
Ocean Optics - spectrometers and optical sensing accessories
Ohaus - balances
Omega Engineering, Inc. - wide range of measurement and control equipment including thermocouples, tubing
Onset Computer Corporation - HOBO data loggers
Opti Sciences - chlorophyll fluorescence equipment
Parr Instruments - calorimeters and related lab instrumentation
PDZ Europa - stable isotope mass spectrometers - now Sercon
Perkin-Elmer - C-H-N-S analyzers and other lab instrumentation
Phenotype Screening Corporation - imaging services providing visualization of whole plant root systems
Physical Acoustics Corporation - acoustic emission sensors for detecting xylem cavitation
Picarro - real-time gas analyzers for CO, CO₂, H₂O, CH₄
PMS Instrument Corporation - pressure chambers
PP Systems - portable photosynthesis & transpiration systems, soil respiration, CO2/H2O gas analyzers, chlorophyll fluorescence, sap flow, oxygen electrodes, and spectrometers
Prenart Equipment - sampling equipment for soil and groundwater
Quark Glass - custom glassware
Sartorius - balances
Scott Specialty Gases - specialty gas products (such as calibration gases) and equipment
Sercon - Mass spectrometers (formerly PDZ Europa)
Sigma-Aldrich - chemicals
Skye Instruments - dataloggers, microclimate sensors
Soilmoisture Equipment Corporation - instruments for measurement and monitoring of soil, water, plant relationships
Spectrum Technologies - environmental monitoring equipment
Spex CertiPrep - ball mills and other equipment for sample preparation
Stable Isotope Suppliers - comprehensive list from Isogeochem
Swagelok - fluid and gas system components, connectors, valves, and tubing
ThermoFisher Scientific - stable isotope mass spectrometers, liquid chromatography systems. Now merged with Fisher Scientific and Dionex. Formerly Thermo Electron Corporation, before that Thermo Finnigan, and before that, Finnigan Corporation. Hard to keep track of all the corporate mergers!
Unity Scientific - near infrared (NIR) instrumentation, automated wet chemistry analyzers, and sample preparation equipment
US Balance - scales & accessories
Vaisala - O2 meters and other air quality monitoring equipment
vanEssen Instruments - groundwater monitoring instruments
VWR - wide range of lab supplies and equipment
Walz - chlorophyll fluorescence and gas exchange equipment
Waterloo Hydrogeologic - groundwater modeling software
Waters Corporation - mass spectrometry equipment (formerly Micromass)
Wescor - equipment for measuring soil water potential and osmometers
Zeta-tec - battery powered data loggers for measuring temperature, voltage, resistance, current, pulses, light levels, logic levels, and discrete time domain events

Please email suitable information to Rob Jackson.