FACILITIES and INSTRUMENTATION
Geobiology Laboratory
- Leica DMBL compound microscope with epifluorescence
- Two Conviron E7 plant growth chambers with light, temperature, humidity, and CO2 control
Geochemistry Laboratories
- Bruker XRF (2011), PIONEER-S4
- Bruker XRD
- Leeman ICP-AES
- Dionex 600 Ion Chromatograph
- Deltech DT-31-VT-HN 2404 high temperature vertical quench furnace
- Milestone Hg analyzer DMA-80 (nanogram level detector)
- PSA Hg analyzer (picogram level detector, two instruments)
- Hach DR/2010 Spectrophotometer
- LICOR infra-red CO2 analyzer and accumulation flux chamber
- Beckman-Coulter DU530 UV/VIS spectrophotometer
- Mettler autotitrator
- Coulometer for CO2 analyses (carbonate analyzer)
- CE Elantech Flash 1112 CHNSO Elemental Analyzer
- Hiden Analytical HAL/3F Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer
- SEM, TEM (shared facilities)
Planetary and GIS Laboratories
- ASD Portable Reflectance Spectrometers (0.3 -1.0 microns and 0.3 - 2.5 microns)
- 42" HP Printer
- ArcGIS (Esri University Site License)
- ENVI, ISIS, Matlab, QGIS
- GPS units
- Total Station
- Four dedicated PC workstations
Sedimentology Laboratory
- 2 Nikon dissecting microscopes
- Carbonate Coulometer
- Minolta portable Spectraphotometer
- Doppler Current Meter
Other Equipment
- 28' Pontoon, 2 17.5' whaler runabouts
- Rock sawing and coring equipment
- Petrographic and dissecting microscopes