Instrumentation
The major instruments and their most common uses include:
- ICP-MS for trace multi-element analysis (~ mid-ppt to ppb range) in water, sediment, soil, and other environmental/biological samples.
- ICP-OES for multi-element analysis (~ mid-ppb to ppm range) in water, sediment, soil and other environmental/biological samples.
- GFAA for inorganic analysis of major and trace elements.
- GC-MS for quantification and characterization of trace levels of low MW organic compounds in environmental and biological samples.
- TOC Analyzer for carbon and nitrogn contents in liquid samples and carbon contents in solid samples.
- CHNS-O Elemental Analyzer for determination of carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, oxygen and hydrogen contents in solid samples.
- FIA for determination of major nutrients, including ammonium, nitrite/nitrate, silica, phosphorous, sulfur in water samples.
- Liquid-Water Isotope Analyzer for measurement of hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios in liquid water samples.
- IC for analyses of major anion and cation in river, snow and rainfall samples.
Sample preparation equipment include:
Microwave digestion system, centrifuge, drying oven, dry bath incubator, water bath, sample freezer and refrigerator, fume hood, ductless clean workstations, and Millipore water purification system.
