Equipment

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