The lab in photos Our working space for wet chemistry.There’s enough room for coral core slab sampling.Laminar flow hood to keep the dust out of our samples.The old trusty balance for wet chemistry and pipetting. Our Equipment Our Sampling Tools Proxxon Drill: Low resolution milling for sampling at millimeter scale.Proxxon Drill: High resolution precision milling for sampling at sub-millimeter scale.Dremel Drill: Handheld drill for sampling those hard to reach corners. Precision Balances Precision balance able to handle microsamples down to micrograms. Our Analytical Capability SPECTRO CIROS VISION ICP-OES. Both axial and radial plasma observation for high sensitivity determination of trace contents with high analysis precision for the entire relevant spectrum from 125 to 770 nm.Analytik Jena Plasma Quant MS Quadrupole-ICP-MS. This is the workhorse of the project analyzing trace element concentrations at high precision with detection limits as low as sub-parts per billion (ppb).ICP-MS Quartz Torch. Together with Argon gas and radio frequency coil to generate a strong electromagnetic field, the torch triggers ionization of the nebulized sample for individual elements and their masses to be measured by the mass spectrometer.Elemental Scientific PC3x, Peltier cooled cyclonic spray chamber. Our special inlet system for sample introduction incorporating a traditional cyclonic spray chamber with thermal stabilization to reduce sample interference and long-term stability. Cetac ASX 500 Autosampler. You put your liquid samples here and watch it go with a robot arm. Photo Credit: Coral Climatology Working Group
