Analytical equipment:
Wet lab for geochemical analyses and pollen preparation
- Fume hood
- Fisher Scientific Marathon 21000 centrifuge
- High-intensity ultrasonic processor
- Sink and sieving station
- Micropore water purifier
- Spectronic Genesys5 spectrophotometer
- CHN analyzer
- Laminar flow hood
- Muffle furnace
- Drying oven
- Mettler Toledo scale
- UIC CO2 coulometer
- Bartington magnetic susceptibility meter (MS2C core logging
sensor and MS2B cup sensor)
- Lindberg/Blue waterbath
- Savant Novalyphe NL500 freeze dryer
- Isotemp vacuum oven and vacuum pump
- Ortec Octete Plus Alpha spectrophotometer with eight ports
[complete facilities for Pb-210 dating]
Microscopy and image analysis
- 3 Nikon compound microscopes, one with dual eyepieces for
teaching
- 3 Nikon dissecting microscopes with phototubes
- Digital camera mounted on phototube and image analysis software
- Eppendorf micromanipulator (outfitted for isolation of individual
pollen grains)
Computing:
- 3 PCs
- 3 G3 Power Macintosh
- HP LaserJet 4000N
- HP OfficeJet color printer/copier/fax
Core archiving and processing:
- Cold rooms maintained at 4°C
- Core splitting tools
- Precise 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 cm3 brass subsampling tools
- Nikon Coolpix 3 megabit digital camera and lighted photography
mount
Lake sediment coring equipment:
- 2 Livingstone square-rod piston corers (5 cm diameter)
- 3 Glew corers
- Magnesium-zirconium drive rods (42 m)
- Stainless steel casing in 1 m lengths
- Electric hammer (mounts on rods for penetrating stiff sediment)
- Rafts and portable plywood platform
- "Frozen finger" freeze corer
Isotopic analyses:
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