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Introducing PASCO’s new EcoZone System!
Accurately measure a “constructed” ecosystem

Predict, monitor, and describe changes over time. Observe how water quality changes. Measure the ‘weather’ within the system. Quantify the changes in carbon dioxide and oxygen.

The interaction of organisms within their physical surroundings is one of the most important concepts within Environmental Science. Traditionally, efforts to study ecosystems have been limited to observational, qualitative studies. Now PASCO allows you to make these studies quantitative.

Don’t spend valuable time on set up and clean up! Cutting two liter soda bottles, removing labels, poking holes, connecting chambers – all of this is done for you! Eliminate the wasted time in setting up ecosystems and utilize it to study the ecosystem instead. Clean up is easy, and the chambers are durable enough to use again and again. The unique design of the PASCO EcoZone System allows you to use your environmental science probes to actively measure a model ecosystem.

EcoZone™ System (ME-6668)

Includes

What makes this system truly unique?

  • Your measurements have minimal impact on the system because it remains closed!

  • Custom built to easily interface with PASCO’s line of sensors and interfaces

  • Decouple the EcoChambers for individual studies of single ecosystems.

With three interconnected chambers, students can model the interaction between three different ecosystems. Choose the traditional terrestrial, aquatic, and decomposition arrangement or create unique biomes to model and measure. Decouple the system for isolated investigations - how does the availability of light affect the ecosystem? Students can create two identical ecosystems and monitor one in light conditions and one in dark.

The openings within the chambers allow air to circulate between the chambers, and the included cord efficiently ‘wicks’ water between the chambers. Additionally, ions are transported through the cord, so materials move from the terrestrial chamber too!

What about chemical analysis?

With the included syringe, you can extract a small amount of water for chemical testing with the PASCO ezSample™ test kits. The syringe can also be used to replenish water if the levels are too low to sustain life, or if students want to inject a pollutant into the environment and monitor its effect.



The “terrestrial” chamber and the “aquatic” chamber.  Air and water pass between the chambers through openings at the top of the chambers.



Graph showing the change in Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide as a light is turned on and off.



The opening that connects the chambers also allows water and air to pass between the chambers – and even bugs can move back and forth.



Monitor the physical environment! This graph shows the relationship between the relative humidity and temperature within the terrestrial chamber over a 24 hour period.



Keep the system closed during chemical testing – use the included syringe to extract water. Or “inject” pollutants into the system and see how the ecosystem responds


Quantify photosynthesis by measuring both Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide.  Individual chamber easily accommodates small potted plants.

3 EcoChambers including lids

Custom tray for holding EcoChambers in a connected ecosystem

14 stoppers

Cotton wick

Syringe and plastic tubing

You will also need:

Xplorer GLX


The new Xplorer GLX captures, analyses, annotates, stores and prints data quickly and seamlessly, without being connected to a computer.

A science lab wherever you need it. You can also connect to a computer and unleash the full power of the award-winning DataStudio software.

Click here for more information.