Lancaster Environment Centre
| Type | Science Centre |
|---|---|
| Established | 2003 |
| Dean | Professor Peter Atkinson 2015>. Director of LEC: Prof. Philip Barker 2016> |
| Address | Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK, Lancaster, United Kingdom |
| Campus | Semi-Rural |
| Website | http://www.lec.lancs.ac.uk/ |
Coordinates: 54°00′32″N 2°47′10″W / 54.009°N 2.786°W
The Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) in Lancaster, England, is an interdisciplinary centre for teaching, research and collaboration at Lancaster University, founded in 2003.
Its facilities were a joint investment eventually costing over £35 million by NERC / CEH and Lancaster University. There are CEH and Lancaster University laboratories, developed partly by a new extension to Lancaster University’s former Biological and Environmental Sciences building and partly by extensive refurbishment of areas of the existing laboratories. Research activities span both organisations. There are extensive research laboratories, fifteen glasshouses and ten walk-in controlled environment rooms. These include high-grade containment facilities for research with genetically modified organisms and radionuclides.
On 22 May 2007, the Gordon Manley Building, (LEC III) was opened by Lord Rees of Ludlow Kt. The £8.4m building provides new office, laboratory and meeting-room space for geographers and environmental scientists, and provides offices, meeting and training rooms for LEC’s Enterprise & Business Partnerships Team and offices for companies wishing to locate into LEC or to co-locate new activities.
In addition to the main site is a 1000m² prefabricated building at the northern end of campus, which houses environmental engineering and instrumentation workshops and large-scale sample preparation facilities for CEH. There is a weather station and several field stations around the world.
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