As an open laboratory to support collaborative research at the national and regional level, this BRIN facility is open for researchers, academicians, and students across IndonesiaJakarta (ANTARA) - The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) inaugurates the Oceanography Research Integrated Laboratory (LATERIO) in Ancol, here, Tuesday, as strategic infrastructure to bolster modern oceanography research and ocean biodiversity discovery in Indonesia.
"As an open laboratory to support collaborative research at the national and regional level, this BRIN facility is open for researchers, academicians, and students across Indonesia," BRIN's Head, Laksana Tri Handoko, noted at the inauguration event.
LATERIO is complemented with the latest and advanced equipment to support various discoveries of Indonesia's ocean biodiversity, such as automatic digital microscope and trinocular stereo microscope.
Moreover, the others include compound microscope with phase contrast, fluorescence microscope, and fluorescence imaging system.
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The LATERIO building additionally has the Integrated Instrumentation Laboratory facility and 14 preparation laboratories to support various disciplines within oceanography.
The LATERIO building, with 18 floors, was built using the Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Program - Coral Triangle Initiative (COREMAP-CTI) funded by the World Bank.
Investment worth Rp73 billion was channeled into the building's construction in addition to Rp49.5 billion to support the laboratory system and instrumentation as well as office interiors.
All facilities in LATERIO are open and can be utilized by all researchers and academicians, both domestic and overseas, who are keen to collaborate with researchers in Indonesia, Handoko affirmed.
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All parties intending to utilize facilities in LATERIO can access them through BRIN's Science E-service (ELSA) platform as the equipment and laboratory utilization and services system owned and managed by the agency, he noted.
The other equipment of LATERIO include inductively coupled plasma - optical emission spectrometer, mercury analyzer, graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometer, fourier transform infrared spectrometer, gas chromatography–mass spectrometry, autoanalyzer, and microbalance.
The others are Raman spectrometer, scanning electron microscope, total organic content analyzer, particle size analyzer, colony counter, microplate spectrophotometer, and accelerated solvent extractor.
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