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Modern laboratory facilities are an integral part of our research program in the Department of Earth Sciences.
The Department of Earth Sciences is equipped with a number of multi-user facilities, including a computer lab for remote sensing, GIS, and modeling techniques, a sample preparation and characterization laboratory (e.g, rock-cutting and sample preparation equipment, petrographic microscopes, XRD, and SEM-EDS), and a wide variety of field equipment. The nearby Kresge Science Library supports Earth Science research through extensive collections of online and print journals, geologic maps, major reference works, book collections, and a tremendous support staff.
The Department of Earth Sciences is well equipped with many modern research facilities. These currently include a variety of thermal ionization and gas source mass spectrometers, inductively coupled plasma and optical emission mass spectrometers, gas and liquid chromatographs with isotope ratio mass spectrometers, infrared spectrometers, magnetometers, and research-grade petrographic microscopes. These instruments and others are described in their respective lab pages below.
Fallout RadioNuclide Analytics Lab
Geomicrobiology & Microbial Geochemistry Lab
Planetary Data Analysis and Visualization Lab
Planetary Surface Dynamics Lab
Trace Elements and Analysis Core
Rippel Electron Microscopy Facility
Trace Elements and Analysis Core