You can download the QuickTime viewer by following this link K. Juniper's marine biology laboratory is equipped with a special room used to prepare samples analysed for stable isotopes with mass spectrometry. The analysis of lipidic content is done either with a gas chromatograph or with a gas chromatograph coupled with a mass spectrometer. A molecular biology room is used to analyse bacterial samples from marine environments. This room is equipped for DNA extraction, PCR amplification, electrophoresis and cloning. These characteristics influence the interactions within the continental crust and the convection in the Earth's mantle.
Workstations are available for image analysis and numerical modelling.
Image analyses K. Juniper also has an image analysis laboratory in which several work stations are available to view and edit analogue and digital video images. Video images and photos can also be numerised. Still images can be directly analysed or grouped into large mosaics to allow the study of larger surfaces. Video montages are used to map hydrothermal sites, to study species behaviour or simply for general public. The analysis of optical or electronic microscopic images is used to document surface colonisation by bacteria and biofilms as well as ectosymbiosis between vent invertebrates and bacteria.