Another 6 months have flown by and it’s time to touch base with you, our wonderful customers. It’s always amazing how quickly time passes and a challenge to pick the highlights to tell you. Posting news on our Web pages, Facebook & Twitter reaches many of you, but for others our newsletter is when you hear our updates. Hopefully you’ll find the news we’re sharing to be useful. We like ...
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Rebecca Bernard of Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama is the first recipient of our Travel Stipend. Rebecca will give a presentation at the Ecological Society of America meeting this month in Portland, Oregon titled The Biogeochemistry of Oyster Restoration. Rebecca used a TD-700 Laboratory Fluorometer (which was obsoleted when we introduced the Trilogy) to look at Chlorophyll levels as a proxy ...
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Turner Designs is celebrating our 40th anniversary on February 18, 2012. We feel proud knowing we continue to offer great instruments and supportive service to a wonderful customer base after 40 years of business. Thank you to all our customers for keeping us strong after all these years together.
We're happy to announce that we will continue to offer free ground shipping on all orders >$500 within the continental US through 2012.
Turner Designs is excited to announce we are now granting travel stipend awards to students who present a paper or poster referencing their use of Turner Designs equipment. This opportunity is separate from our instrument donation program which will continue to award AquaFluor Handheld Fluorometer/Turbidimeters biannually in July and December.
We're offering FREE ground shipping and handling on all orders >$500 shipping within the continental US though 2010. Request a quote
Turner Designs is providing in situ and Laboratory Fluorometers specifically configured to detect Crude Oil for tracking the Gulf Oil spill. Equipment being deployed includes the C3 Submersible Fluorometer, as specified in the USCG SMART protocol; the Cyclops-7 Submersible Crude Oil sensor with the DataBank, our handheld datalogger; and the Trilogy Laboratory Fluorometer for discr ...
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We’ll be posting new product announcements and hope to see lots of comments from all our friends. We included a museum of instrumentation showing 38 years of our fluorometers in use -- please upload your photos showing our instruments in action. Under Discussions, we encourage your input on additional applications or future instrumentation you’d like us to provide. Please find us on Facebook t ...
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In July, 2005 the TD-700 was replaced with the Trilogy Laboratory Fluorometer. The Trilogy is a compact, multifunctional laboratory instrument that can be used for making fluorescence, absorbance and turbidity measurements using the appropriate snap-in module. Some of the applications we've added beyon ...
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Optical Brighteners (OBAs) or Fluorescent Whitening Agents (FWAs) are added to products such as laundry soaps, detergents, and cleaning agents. Laundry wastewater is the largest contributor of brighteners to wastewater systems. The presence of brighteners in water systems to which wastewater is being discharged can mean failing septic systems, sewage leaks, or complete lack of water treatment. The ...
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The Trilogy Laboratory Fluorometer not only has fluorescence capabilities, but can also detect turbidity and absorbance! Also we've recently released the Nitrate Absorbance Module designed to detect inorganic nitrate and nitrite using the standard reactive nitrate/nitrite method adapted from Strickland and Parsons, "A Practical Handbook of Seawater Analysis". Now ...
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Turner Designs today announced the Trilogy Laboratory Fluorometer. Trilogy is a compact, multifunctional laboratory instrument that uses snap-in Application Modules to measure fluorescence, absorbance and turbidity. Trilogy features a Touch-Panel graphics user interface for intuitive operation and calibration. Eighteen named calibrations can be stored by Trilogy significantly saving calibration ti ...
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