Infrastructure

Our well-equipped laboratories are located in the NO building of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and in the CHN building of the Department of Environmental Systems Science.

Our instruments include:

BD Influx flow cytometer in a laminar flow hood (one channel with UV laser)
Agilent 7890 gas chromatograph with CTC-PAL autosampler coupled to a Markes Time-of-Flight mass spectrometer
Agilent 7890 gas chromatograph with autosampler and a Gerstel Preparative Fraction Collection system
Agilent 6890 gas chromatograph with autosampler and a Gerstel Preparative Fraction Collection system
Two Agilent 7890 gas chromatographs with autosamplers and Flame Ionization Detectors
Agilent 1260 High Performance Liquid Chromatograph (binary pump, autosampler, fraction collector) coupled to an Agilent 6030 single quadrupole mass spectrometer (choice of ESI and APCI ionization sources)
Agilent 1260 High Performance Liquid Chromatograph (binary pump, autosampler, fraction collector) with Diode Array Detector and Thermo Corona Veo Charged Aerosol Detector
Agilent 1290 Ultra High Performance Liquid Chromatograph (binary pump, autosampler, fraction collector) with Diode Array and Fluorescence Detectors
Quantachrome NOVA-4 Gas Sorption Analyzer
Postnova Analytics SPLITT series continuous particle separation system
CEM EDGE solvent extractor
Christ freeze dryer Alpha 1-4 LD plus and Christ freeze dryer Alpha 1-2 LD
EA-IRMS-AMS Elemental Analyzer - Elementar Isotope Ration Mass Spectrometer - Accelerator Mass Spectrometer system for tandem 13-C and 14-C measurements
Mini carbon dating system, MICADAS
Picarro L2120-i Analyzer for Isotopic H2O
Thermo Gas Chromatograph - Isotope Ration Mass Spectrometer Delta V Plus (for 13-C, 2-H, 15-N)
Vacuum line for CO2 purification and quantification
Mettler-Tolledo micro balance, analytical balance and precision balance
Retsch MM 200 Oscillating Mill
UV oxidation setup for dissolved organic matter with vacuum line for CO2 purification and quantification