Key equipment in Ely includes water samplers, field water quality meters, sediment corers/extruders and freeze samplers, research microscopes, a digital microscopy imaging system, a sediment drying oven and muffle furnace, a sediment freeze-dryer, a fume hood, a deionized water system, a centrifuge, high-resolution balances, and several computers set up for image processing, databasing, and ecological statistics.