Starting February 2026, our lab spaces are being renovated. The spaces will be equipped with
HF-grade fume hoods and laminar flow benches
Doubly deionized (18.2 MΩ) water stations (MilliPore)
Muffle furnace
Countertops for wet and dry sample preparation
The lab's crown jewel: an Agilent 8900 Triple Quadrupole ICP-MS
The lab is designed to maximize interoperability and assure future growth. The space will be used to prepare a wide range of sample matrices (water, inorganic solids, organic solids) and measure both trace and major element concentrations (e.g., lithium isotope ratios, rhenium concentrations). There will also be room for additional instrumentation.
Presently, our personnel use facilities in the Department of Geology and Environmental Science, including a class 1,000 (ISO 6) clean room equipped with fume hoods and laminar flow benches and analytical facilities that include a Perkin Elmer NeXION 300X inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer. We occasionally use the Dietrich School's Shared Research Support Services (NMR, SEM, FTIR) and the Petersen Institute of NanoScience and Engineering (XRD, XRF), and we collaborate with folks in the Department and at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (micro-XRD).