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