Environmental Geochemistry Lab (Herbert)

This lab includes several centrifuges (high capacity; high speed and refrigerated), a benchtop incubator, an orbital shaker, and a Labcono freeze dry/shell dry system. It also houses a Glas-Col Combo Mantle for extracting, refluzing, and distilling solutions, a Buchi Rotavapor RE 111 for distilling volumes 50 mL to 3 L, a SpectrAA.200 Varian UltrAA for measuring elements in solution, and a Quantasorb surface analyzer.

Environmental Geochemistry and Geomicrobiology Instrumentation Labs (Herbert and Tice)

These labs house a Varian 4000 Ion Trap GC/MS/MS for analysis of trace organic biomarkers, a Dionex Ion Chromatograph with a CD 25 conductivity detector, GP50 Gradient Pump and AS40 Automated Sampler, 5890 Series II and 6890 Series Gas Chromatographs with autosampler controllers and dual flame ionization and Electron Capture detectors, a Vario EL III (Elemental Analyzer), an Agilent Capillary Electrophoresis system, a Jenway 6200 Fluorimeter, a 746 VA Trace Analyzer Metrohm Ion Analysis system, a zeta potential analyzer, a Hitachi V-3010 UV/VIS Spectrophotometer, an Nicolet IR spectrometer with IR microscope, two Percival phototroph incubators, a laminar flow hood with HEPA filter, a Micro Oxymax System respirometer, and an analytical microbalance.

Evolutionary Geobiology Lab (Tice)

This lab is currently under construction. It will house facilities for analyzing paleontological samples (rocks) and for culturing and working with microbes, including a combination petrographic/fluorescence microscope and an X-ray fluorescence microprobe (Horiba XGT-7000). Additional equipment will include a minus 80 freezer, walk-in cold storage, two fume hoods and a laminar flow hood, a PCR thermal cycler, centrifuges, incubators, and several custom-built chemostats.

Micropaleontology Lab (Wade)

This lab is currently under construction. It will house facilities for preparation of sediment samples for micropaleontological analysis.

Stable Isotope Lab (Grossman)

The Stable Isotope Laboratory in the Department of Geology and Geophysics houses a ThermoFinnigan DELTAplusXP isotope ratio mass spectrometer with (1) GasBench II for C, O, and H isotopic analyses of water and C and O isotopic analyses of carbonates; (2) CarloErba combustion elemental analyzer (EA) for C, N, and S isotopic analyses of organic matter; and (3) ThermoFinnigan TC/EA for D and O isotopic analyses of water and O isotopic analyses of phosphates and sulfates.  The laboratory also has a New Wave computer-controlled micromilling system.

Williams Radiogenic Isotope Geosciences Laboratory (Marcantonio, Miller, Thomas)

The College of Geosciences Williams Radiogenic Isotope Geosciences Laboratory contain Class 100 and 1000 ultra-clean chemistry laboratories, a mass spectrometry lab, and a sample preparation lab (2600 square feet). The clean laboratories are designed for low-blank (contamination free) chemical preparation of samples for U, Th, Pb, Sm-Nd, Re-Os, and Sr isotopic analyses. The mass spectrometry lab houses a new Thermo Scientific Triton thermal ionization mass spectrometer (TIMS) and a high-resolution, inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometer (HR-ICP-MS). The lab instrumentation serves the research needs of a broad range of disciplines, including tectonics, geochronology, paleoceanography, climate change and environmental geochemistry.