Facilities

The Department of Earth and Climate Sciences has an array of equipment and technology to support undergraduate studies and field research. Below is a list of some of the equipment in our department.

Computing Facilities

3 PC workstations for student use
18 node, 144 processor Apple research cluster
Geohydrology lab with specialized software
Epson 7600 wide format printer
Network Color Laser printer
Lane Hall WiFi network

Analysis and Preparation Equipment

Olympus low power binocular microscopes
Olympus petrographic microscopes
Leica DMS 1000 microscope digital capture system
AGICO JR-6 manual Dual Speed Magnetometer
AGICO MFK1-FA Spinner Kappabridge susceptibility device with CS4 furnace device
ASC TD48 Thermal Demagnetizer
ASC LB-1 Laboratory Rock Core Drill Press
Magnetic Shield Corp. 40-cm cylindrical nested mu-metal shield
Sapphire Instruments SI-4 single axis AF demagnetizer with IRM and ARM generation
Bartington MS2C 125 mm core logging magnetic susceptibility device
Deltec research furnace
Octagon Digital sieve shaker, with coarse to fine 8" sieves at quarter-phi increments
Mettler analytical electronic balances
Ohaus electronic balances
Blue M drying oven
Rock saws and grinding equipment

Field Facilities and Equipment

Multiple boreholes on campus for groundwater hydrology teaching and research (GeoJumbo Array)
Downhole well observation video camera and recording equipment
Suite of Solinst pressure transducer/temperature probes
Full suite of Brunton pocket transits and Jacob staffs
Soft sediment manual coring equipment
Rock outcrop cutting and mini coring power tools
OTT MF pro Electromagnetic Flow Meter

Repositories and Collections

Curated fossil collection of ~3000 specimens
Curated mineral collection of ~4000 specimens
Curated rock collection of ~3000 specimens