Sediment Transport Lab

The Czuba research group operates within Seitz Hall at Virginia Tech within shared departmental lab space. This includes a watershed monitoring laboratory and a sediment laboratory. These laboratories serve as staging areas for watershed monitoring activities, including equipment setup, calibration, and repair, as well as for sample preparation, analysis, and storage. These labs have equipment for standard physical soil tests, such as bulk density, specific gravity, and particle size analysis. 

Laboratory Equipment

PI Czuba has field equipment necessary for topography, bathymetry, and water-velocity surveying and sediment data collection including:

• Trimble R10 real-time kinematic global positioning system
• Topcon GTS-105 total station
• Four – Sontek-IQ Plus uplooking acoustic Doppler velocity meters
• Nine – Onset HOBO water level data loggers (pressure and temperature)
• Sontek CastAway-CTD water quality profiling sensor
• US P-6 (aluminum) point-integrating sediment sampler
• DH-76 (epoxy coated) depth-integrating suspended hand line sampler
• Stream-lined laser in-situ scattering and transmissometry instrument (LISST-SL2) that measures in-situ particle size distribution between 1 and 500 microns in 36 log-spaced size classes every 1 seconds at a point in the water column

Principal Investigator