RV Investigator’s hydrochemistry laboratory is looking great!
Posted: January 31, 2014 Filed under: Home | Tags: Australia's Marine National Facility, Future Research Vessel Project, Hydrochemistry, Laboratory, RV Investigator, ship construction Leave a commentOne of the very busy centres onboard RV Investigator will be the hydrochemistry laboratory.
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Let’s look at the General Purpose Dry Laboratory
Posted: January 29, 2014 Filed under: Home | Tags: Australia's Marine National Facility, Future Research Vessel Project, Laboratory, RV Investigator, RV Investigator's General Purpose Dry Laboratory, ship construction Leave a commentFrom the Operations Room, you need to go across the corridor to enter the General Purpose Dry Laboratory, onboard RV Investigator.
Come and have a look at the work that’s been happening in this large laboratory!
Come and have a look at the General Purpose Wet Laboratory (clean)
Posted: January 27, 2014 Filed under: Home | Tags: Australia's Marine National Facility, Future Research Vessel Project, General Purpose Wet Laboratory (clean), RV Investigator, ship construction Leave a commentThe General Purpose Wet Laboratory (clean) onboard RV Investigator is looking great!
The beautiful bridge on RV Investigator!
Posted: January 24, 2014 Filed under: Home | Tags: Australia's Marine National Facility, bridge, Future Research Vessel Project, RV Investigator, ship construction Leave a commentAustralia’s new Marine National Facility research vessel, Investigator has an ENORMOUS and beautiful bridge!
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Incubators arrive in Hobart!
Posted: January 22, 2014 Filed under: Home | Tags: Australia's Marine National Facility, Future Research Vessel Project, Group 2 scientific equipment, Incubator, RV Investigator, ship construction Leave a commentMarine biologist love to take samples, to observe and better understand what lives in our oceans.
It might be microscopic floating plants (phytoplankton), or it could be small animals (zooplankton).
In order to keep these samples alive, under the right conditions, they need incubators.
Two have arrived in Hobart, and Dr Brian Griffiths from the Future Research Vessel Project, and Terry Byrne from the CSIRO storeroom, were on hand to unpack and check them.
The incubators are part of the Group 2 scientific equipment, being purchased for use onboard RV Investigator.
Wow, check out the Operations Room onboard RV Investigator!
Posted: January 20, 2014 Filed under: Home | Tags: Australia's Marine National Facility, Future Research Vessel Project, Operations Room, RV Investigator, ship construction Leave a commentRV Investigator’s Operations Room is the heart of the scientific operations onboard.
It looks amazing!
Tasmanian company wins international tender
Posted: January 17, 2014 Filed under: Home | Tags: Australia's Marine National Facility, Future Research Vessel Project, Group 2 scientific equipment, RV Investigator, ship construction Leave a commentTHIS MEDIA RELEASE WAS DISTRIBUTED ON FRIDAY 17 JANUARY 2014 BY CSIRO.
Tasmanian-based Taylor Brothers has beaten a competitive field in the international tender for the construction and supply of four container laboratories, for Australia’s new Marine National Facility research vessel, Investigator.
The contract to supply the HAZMAT locker, the Laboratory Clean Container, the Radiation Laboratory Container, and the CTD storage container, has been finalised, and today the CSIRO procurement team will inspect the work already undertaken on these laboratories.
CSIRO Oceanographer, Dr Bernadette Sloyan, was involved with detailing the specifications for the Laboratory Clean Container, which is vital to her research.
“Having a system of interchangeable container laboratories will change the way scientists undertake work onboard the Marine National Facility research vessel,” Dr Sloyan said.
“It will allow specialist equipment, specific to a scientific discipline, to be permanently set up in the container laboratory, which can be stored on the wharf and then added to the ship when it’s needed.”
RV Investigator can accommodate up to 13 container laboratories, and in addition to these there are nine permanent laboratories onboard.
The diversified engineering company, Taylor Brothers, secured the international tender worth over $900,000 in September 2013, and since then they have been undertaking the work to construct the laboratories
One of the Directors of Taylor Brothers, Phillip Taylor, said his family owned company has evolved from a solely ship building business in the 1930s, into today’s diversified engineering company.
“We now employ staff with a broad range of skills, with the expertise to secure competitive international tenders, like this one with CSIRO,” Mr Taylor said.
