TECHNICAL SUPPORT OFFICES, SHOPS, AND LABORATORIES

CARPENTRY SHOP

Phone: (850) 644-2733    2606 Mission Road 
Fax:    (850) 645-8447     Mail code: 4295

Manager: Joseph Faragasso

Personnel: Roy Weidner

The Carpentry Shop is available to Biology faculty and staff for renovation services and minor woodworking repairs. Laboratory casework, computer workstations, and office remodeling are specialties.

EDITORIAL OFFICE

      Phone: (850) 644-5131    4061 King Life Sciences Building
      Fax:     (850) 645-8447    Mail code: 4295

      Personnel: Anne B. Thistle

For more information on services, please visit our website.

The Biological Science Editorial Office provides editorial services, free of charge, to faculty of the Department of Biological Science.

ELECTRONICS SHOP

      Phone: (850) 644-6527    121A Biology Unit I 
      Fax:     (850) 644-0481    Mail code: 4370

       Manager: Joseph Faragasso

      Personnel: Steven Noakes
                    
The Electronics Shop staff uses a variety of electronic diagnostic equipment to trouble-shoot and repair scientific equipment and computers. They are available for designing new or modifying old research equipment and for consulting on research problems.

HERBARIUM

      Phone: (850) 644-6278    100 Biology Unit I
      Fax:     (850) 644-0481    Mail code: 4370

      Director: Dr. Austin Mast

       Curator: Amanda Kubes

The FSU Herbarium contains about 195,000 dried specimens of vascular plants (ferns, conifers, and flowering plants). The collection is worldwide in scope but heavily emphasizes the native flora of Florida and neighboring regions. Functions of the herbarium are teaching (specimens are used to illustrate various taxonomic groups in advanced botany courses on campus), research (resident botanists use the herbarium for critical study of selected groups for taxonomic monographs or ecological investigations, and specimens are loaned to scientists at other institutions throughout the world for similar studies), and service (the collection is used to help identify specimens submitted by state agencies, other biologists, and interested citizens, and it also provides data on distribution of endangered species, poisonous plants, weeds,  and other plants of concern for various users). The herbarium's website is at http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu/.

MACHINE SHOP

      Phone: (850) 644-9573    120 Biology Unit I 
      Fax:     (850) 644-0481    Mail code: 4370
      E-mail: machineshop@bio.fsu.edu

      Manager:  Joseph Faragasso

      Personnel: Steve Noakes
                     Sandy Heath
                     Ralph Anderson
                        
Using standard machine equipment such as lathes, milling machines, drill press, and band saw, the machine shop staff design and build complex, original research equipment, as well as repairing departmental instruments and equipment. 

PHOTO LAB

      Phone: (850) 644-3261    102 Biology Unit I 
      Fax:     (850) 644-0481    Mail code: 4370

       Manager: Kathy Stone

      Personnel: Ken Womble

The photo lab is available to faculty and graduate students for research photographic needs. State-of-the-art equipment is used to produce publication-ready graphics and slides. Standard camera work (slides and prints) is also available. For additional information regarding services and rates, please contact Ken Womble.

STOCKROOMS

      Phone: (850) 644-6778    1013 King Life Sciences 
      Fax:     (850) 645-4295    Mail code: 4295

       Manager: Rob Lumsden ( Coord Rsrch Pgms / Svcs)

      Personnel: Stu Devust

The Biological Science stockroom is located in the King Life Sciences Building (open 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily). Stockroom inventory includes office and laboratory supplies for purchase by department members. Other FSU departments also may purchase items through interdepartmental requisitions.

For more information on services and rates, please visit our website.