The following is a list of research equipment maintained by the School of Earth Sciences and associated departments or research centers:
- Finnigan Delta VI stable isotope ratio mass spectrometer with carbonate Kiel III device and Costech elemental analyzer (SIR-MS-Kiel-EA).
- Three Finnigan Delta stable isotope ratio mass spectrometer (SIR-MS-water) with water equilibration bath devices .
- Finnigan MAT 261A multicollector thermal ionization mass spectrometer (TIMS).
- Picarro L1102-i liquid water isotope analyzer.
- Three PerkinElmer inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometers (ICP-OES).
- Three inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers (ICP-MS) (ThermoFinnigan Element 2 ICP-MS, 2 PerkinElmer Sciex ICP-MS) with a New Wave Research Excimer laser ablation system.
- PerkinElmer Sciex electrospray/chemical ionization MS.
- Aerometrics phase doppler particle analyzer.
- PANalytical MagiX Pro XRF spectrometer with sample changer.
- Two Shimadzu total organic carbon analyzers.
- Dionex DX-120 ion chromatograph with autosampler.
- Skalar SAN++ nutrient analyzer with autosampler.
- Bioscope atomic force microscope with Vecco nanoscope controller.
- Zeiss confocal laser scanning microscope with two He-Ne and one argon laser.
- Agilent gas chromatography-mass spectrometer.
- Two Cary ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometer.
- Two Waters Breeze and one Shimadzu V high pressure liquid chromatographers.
- Thermo-Carlo Erba electron capture gas chromatograph.
- Cary Eclipse fluorescence spectrophotometer.
- Merchanteck microdrill.
- Diamond-anvil cell laser-heating system with YLF laser and dual camera temperature measurement system with ruby fluorescence.
- Hylozoic Products micro-electric discharge machining system.
- Two class-100 clean rooms
- 2 LaCoste-Romberg land gravimeters, 1 Woden gravimeter, and 1 Scintrex CG-5 autograv system gravimeter
- 2 Honeywell inertial measurement units
- 3 Geometrics proton precession magnetometers
- Pulse Echo IV portable time-domain digital GPR system
- Intergraph PhotoScan TD digital scanner