Welcome to the Quaternary Paleoecology Lab! This lab is located in 317A Heroy Geology Building, and houses our Lead-210 dating facility as well as tools and instruments for paleoecological analyses of lake sediments. We also have field equipment custom designed for percussion coring of small lakes in remote settings.
LABORATORY
Lead-210 gamma spectrometer system
- Mirion/Canberra Small Anode Germanium Well Detector with lead shielding
- CosmicGuard cosmic veto background reduction system
- Cryo-Pulse 5 Plus electrically refrigerated cryostat
- Lynx digital signal analyzer
- Desktop workstation with LacSOCS calibration software
Analytical Equipment
- Labconco Benchtop Freeze Dryer (2 L, -50 C)
- CM 5012 CO2 Coulometer
- Hogentogler stirring hotplate
- Mettler-Toldeo Analytical Balance (120 g capacity, 1 mg readability)
- Satorius Balance ( 4200 g capacity, 10 mg readability)
- 6ft fume hood
Microscopes
- Leica S9D stereomicroscope
- Leica S9i stereomicroscope with integrated camera (SD card or HDMI connection)
Millipore Water filtration system
- Pure water (15 Mohm) Elix Advantage system with 100 L reservoir (2 L/min flow rate)
- Ultrapure water ( 18.2 Mohm) Simplicity system with 2 L reservoir (0.5 L/min flow rate)
FIELD EQUIPMENT
Universal Coring system
- Portable twin-dingy coring frame
- Two Mercury 240 inflatable boats
- Universal corer with percussion hammer assembly and 2 3-kg gravity weights
- Incremental core-extruding apparatus
Nesje Coring system
- 14-foot Aire catarafts
- Custom-made coring tripod and platform (moon-pool design)
- Nesje percussion piston corer
(video courtesy of the Axford Lab group, Northwestern University)
More pictures to come soon!