Lab Equipment
- Beckman Coulter LS 13 320 Laser Diffraction Particle Size Analyzer
- Horbita Camsizer
- Flowcam V-1000
- Canberra GL2020R Low Energy Germanium Detector
- ITRAX XRF Core Scanner: X-ray fluorescence (XRF) for elemental abundances (?100um), x-radiography (?50 um), digital imagery (?500 um), and magnetic susceptibility (?2 mm). (Affiliated lab: X-Ray Fluorescence Laboratory)
- GEOTEK Core Scanner: High-resolution line-scan imagery (?25 um), color spectrophotometry (?3mm), gamma density (?2.5 mm), and magnetic susceptibility (?2 mm). (Affiliated Lab: Quaternary Laboratory)
- GEOTEK Core Splitter (Affiliated Lab: Quaternary Laboratory)
- CoreWall Visualization Data Management System. (Affiliated Lab: Quaternary Laboratory)
- Loss-On-Ignition (LOI) furnace.(Affiliated Lab: Quaternary Laboratory)
- X-ray diffraction (XRD). (Affiliated Lab: Quaternary Laboratory)
- Cold room with capacity for 1000 m of core storage.
- Cameca Ultrachron Electron Microprobe: One of a kind instrument developed for high-precision chemical microanalysis. (Affiliated Lab: Electron Microprobe / SEM Facility)
- Carl Zeiss EVO 50 XVP Scanning Electron Microscope: Equipped with SE, and VPSE detectors for imaging surface morphology at high magnification, BSE for Z-contrast imaging, Bruker-AXS SDD EDS detector for compositional analysis and imaging, and Gatan MiniCL for panchromatic cathodoluminescence imaging. (Affiliated Lab: Electron Microprobe / SEM Facility)
Field Gear
Core sampling devices:
- Standard vibra-coring system
- Colinvaux piston corer
- Russian peat corer
- Gouge core
- Gravity percussion coring system
Surveying and mapping:
- DJI Phantom 4 drone
- Trimble R10 GNSS System (Affiliated lab: Trimble Technology Lab – Building and Construction Technology)
- Trimble Business Center software
- Agisoft software (Affiliated Lab: UMass Air)
Sub-surface mapping:
Affiliated Centers and Labs @ UMass Department of Geosciences
X-RAY FLUORESCENCE LABORATORY (Directed by Dr. J.M. Rhodes):
QUATERNARY LABORATORY (Directed by R. Bradley and J. Brigham-Grette)
ELECTRON MICROPROBE/SEM FACILITY (Directed by Dr. M. Jercinovic and Dr. M. Williams)
UMASS AIR (UMass Transportation Center) UMass consortium dedicated to research and educational activities related to unmanned aerial systems (UAS).
Pollen Facility: Isolated internal room to sed. lab with fume hood and all the equipment necessary for sediment digestion, charcoal analysis, macro-fossil recovery, and pollen identification.