Facilities
The Department is well-equipped for modern quantitative geoscience research. Students can learn a variety of techniques.
Analytical Instruments
- Gas Chromatograph (GC)
- High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
- Ultraviolet and Visible Spectrophotometer
- Ion Chromatograph (IC)
- Inductively-Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES)
- Inductively-Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS)
- Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (GFAAS)
- X-ray Diffractometer (XRD)
- X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (XRF)
- Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
- Electron Microprobe (EMP) with Cathodoluminescence Detector (CL)
- Gas source isotope ratio mass spectometer with the following peripheral analyzers:
- Gasbench II
- Elemental analyzer
- High temperature conversion/elemental analyzer
Software
- Geochemists Workbench (geochemical modeling software)
- PHREEQC (geochemical modeling software)
- AquaChem (geochemical modeling software)
- MODFLOW(groundwater flow modeling software)
- MT3D (groundwater and contaminant transport modeling)
- ArcInfo GIS software
- MATLAB
- IDL
- UNIX Utilities including GMT, MB-System
- Landmark Graphics software (oil industry standard processing and interpretation software)
- Abaqus (finite element modeling software)
- Kingdom Suite (seismic interpretation software)
Computer Equipment
- Eight CPU, UNIX server with 4TB of disk space
- GeoWall 3-D visualization center
- Two fully equipped computer labs
Geophysical Equipment
- Magnetic Gradiometer
- Ground penetrating radar
- StrataVisor seismic acquisition system
- LaCoste Romberg gravimeter
- CHIRP subbottom profiler
- Boomer
- Single channel streamer
- Betsy Gun
- Single and three component geophones
- Sparker
Other Geological Equipment
- Hand controlled micro-drilling system
- Truck-mounted Geo Probe for terrestrial coring
- Aquatic vibra-coring probe
- New Wave computer-controlled micro-milling system
- Rock preparation and mineral separation facilities