Instrumentation

Solid-State NMR Spectrometer
Solid-State 300MHz Bruker Avance III – for geomedia samples & Liquid-State Bruker Fourier 300 for routine 1H experiments
For solids, we have 4mm and 7mm sample probes: Magic Angle Spinning, 2 channel, broadband
Gas Chromatograph – Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer
HP6890 Plus GC with autosampler and 5890 quadrupole MS (right).
Water bath turbo-evaporator (left)
Gas Chromatograph – Stable Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer (in the lab of Dr. James Fulton)
Combustion Elemental Analyzer (Carbon & Nitrogen) – Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer (in the lab of Dr. Ren Zhang)

Accelerated Solvent Extractor – for semi-automated lipid extractions
Dionex ASE 200 with 22 mL and 33 mL sample cells
Hand-held X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer – for major and trace element analysis
Bruker – Tracer XRF – great for scanning sediment cores to obtain metal concentrations

Sample Preparation Facilities

  • large drying oven and Freeze dryer – for removing water from samples
  • Turbo-Evaporator and Rotary Evaporator – for removing organic solvent from samples
  • ball Mill, cutting mill, and shatter box – for crushing and grinding samples
Fume hoods: Acid/Base and Organic Solvent
Muffle Furnaces and Hydrous Pyrolysis Reactor Furnaces
Slow Pyrolysis Kiln with 20 Liter reactor and 3 meter cold-finger condenser for generating bio-chars, bio-oils, oils and pyrolysis liquids