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Environmental physiology laboratory
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You’ll use this lab for a wide range of activities including:
- simulating different climates by controlling the temperature (-20 to +50°C)
- simulating relative humidity (20 to 95%)
- pre-cooling or heating via water immersion tank
- body composition assessment
- training interventions and screening
- assessing different sweat markers
- urine analysis
- thermal imaging
- skin and core temperature monitoring
- gas analysis.
Equipment includes:
- purpose-built environmental chamber
- water immersion tank
- blood analysis equipment
- Monark cycle ergometers
- Douglas bags
- Oxygen and carbon dioxide analysers
- Woodway inbuilt treadmill
- sweat analysis equipment
- array of temperature monitoring via core, tympanic, infrared, skin thermistors, thermal camera
- scales and stadiometer
- urine analysis equiment: Osmometer, refractometer, colour chart
