Fisheries Facilities and Equipment at the Kansas Cooperative 

Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

The Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit is located on the top floor of Leasure Hall, where we have office and laboratory space for 12-15 students and a visiting scientist.  The fisheries equipment includes several boats, nets, several backpack electrofishing units, barge electrofishing unit, etc. that are housed off campus.  In addition, fisheries has seven vehicles used for research purposes.  In the laboratory, we have research equipment for various laboratory-related uses.  This includes an image analysis system, two low-speed isomet saw for sectioning bony structures, high-speed document scanner used for scanning up to 500-page documents in seconds, and a data backup system.  

Office space for graduate students typically is a cubicle or part of a small office.

Laboratory equipment

Vehicles

Boats

Laboratory equipment

Our laboratory has all the essential equipment needed for age and growth analysis, diet, invertebrate analysis, and some water chemistry analyses.  In addition, the lab has a data backup system, double sided laser printer, double sided color large-format printer, and own network with all fisheries student and lab computers.  This way all computers are automatically backed up up nightly. 

Fish lab	Fish Lab	Fish lab with isomet saws
Image analysis system	High-speed scanner	Fisheries server
		Data backup system
	We also have several backpack electrofishers as well as numerous nets, seines, trawls, and other field equipment

Vehicles

Most of our vehicles have been given to us from other agencies.  We thank Ouray National Wildlife Refuge (Utah), Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge (Oklahoma), Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge (Kansas), and The US Fish and Wildlife Service (Manhattan, Kansas and Pinetop, Arizona) for generously providing their extra vehicles.  Although usually not new, these vehicles are reliable and work well for field use.

1997 Ford F250  Superduty XCab		2007 Chevorlet 2500HD  Extended cab
1994 Ford  F150 XCab		1997 Ford F150  Supercab
1996 Jeep  Cherokee		1994 Ford  F250 Superduty
1990 Dodge  3/4 ton 4 x 4 "Big Whitie"

Boats

The Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Kansas State has several boats used for large river and reservoir sampling to small ponds and streams.  We have two Coeffelt electrofishing boats: one 17-foot boat used for large reservoirs and the Missouri River and a 15-foot jon rigged for electrofishing.  We have a 17-foot Kann boat, and a 14-foot jon with a 20 hp jet drive for working in the shallow, plains rivers.  Details and pictures of some of our boats are below.

Other boats:

15 foot Alumacraft jon with 15 hp Mercury rigged for electrofishing

14 foot Lowe jon with 15 hp Mercury

10 foot jon

17 foot square stern canoe with a 3 hp outboard