Services

Arkansas State University's Ecotoxicology Research Facility is a US EPA certified test laboratory offering a variety of services including Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) testing.  In-house cultures are maintained to insure the availability and quality of test organisms.  The ERF uses high quality water for culturing to give our organisms the best environment possible.  Strict quality control on our culture waters, culture and test procedures, and organisms is maintained.  Reference toxicity tests are performed monthly to insure the health and condition of our aquatic test organisms.  

Aquatic test organisms:
Pimephales promelas
Ceriodaphnia dubia
Daphnia pulex
Daphnia magna

Sediment test organisms:
Chironomous dilutus (previous nomenclature C. tentans)
Hyalella azteca
Lumbriculus variegatus

Freshwater algae species:
Raphidocelis subcapitata (previous nomenclature Selenastrum capricornutum)
Ankistrodesmus falcatus
Chlamydomonas rheinhardti
Chlorella vulgaris

The ERF is experienced and capable of providing WET testing, sediment, bioaccumulation, and instream investigations for industry and municipalities.  We are certified to perform NPDES chronic and acute testing in the state of Arkansas and results are provided with report formatting for all Discharge Monitoring Reports.

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Our experience and interests also includes habitat and community assessments, in situ biomonitoring, and stream evaluations.