Facilities and Equipment

The River Center analytical laboratory has the capacity to analyze water and trace gas samples.   The lab is equipped with a high purity DI system,  glassware washing room (acid bath and Miele G7883 washer), large drying oven, large muffle furnace, analytical balances and cold storage room. 

Analytical Capabilities

Metrohm Ion Chromatographs

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Metrohm 930 Compact Flex ion chromatographs with eluent production for anion analyses (Metrosep A supp 7) and cation analysis (Metrosep C4) with professional sample processor.

Lachat Flow Injection Analyzer

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Lachat QuikChem 8500 flow injection analyzer for nitrate, ammonium, orthophosphate, and total P analyses
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Shimadzu TOC-TN Analzyer

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Shimadzu TOC-VCPH Analyzer with TNM-1 module and ASI-V autosampler for DOC and TDN analyses
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Shimadzu Gas Chromatograph

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Shimadzu GC-17A Gas Chromatograph with FID and ECD detectors and Tekmar autosampler for nitrous oxide, methane, carbon dioxide and sulfur hexafluoride gas analyses
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Bay Instruments Membrane Inlet Mass Spectrometer

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Bay Instruments MIMS with Pfeiffer Vacuum PrismaPlus quadripole mass spectrometer system and copper furnace for direct measurement of dissolved N2, O2, and Ar.
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Picarro Spectrometers

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Picarro instruments for water isotopes

Perkin Elmer Atomic Absorption Spectrometer

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Perkin Elmer 3100 atomic absorption spectrometer for Na, K, Ca, Mg, Fe, and Ag analyses

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Dionex HPLC

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Dionex Summit HPLC with UV-vis and      fluorescence detectors (organic acid analyses)

Major Field Equipment

Satlantic SUNA sensors

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Submersible UV nitrate analyzers capable of measuring 0.007-56 +/- 0.028 mg/L nitrate-N with real-time data output

YSI Sondes

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Multiple types of YSI multiparameter data-logging sondes within the River Center labs:
  • EXO-2 sondes with DO, pH, conductivity, temperature, turbidity, fDOM, chlorophyll sensors
  • 6920 V2 sonde with conductivity, temperature, pH, optical DO
  • 600 XLM sondes with conductivity, temperature, rapid-pulse DO
  • 600 OMS rhodamine sonde

ISCO Autosamplers

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Teledyne ISCO portable samplers for unattended sampling. Some have submerged probe or area-velocity flow modules

Wetlabs Cycle P Analyzers

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Phosphate sensors capable of measuring 0.0023-0.03 mg/L phosphate-P

Turner Designs Cyclops-7 sensors

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Submersible sensors that integrate with Campbell Scientific CR-1000 dataloggers.
Sensors for CDOM/FDOM (0.15-1250 ppb), Turbidity (0.05-3000 NTU), Chlorophyll (0.025-500 ug/L), Tryptophan (MDL = 3 ppb)

Trimble M3 DR Total Station & GeoXH6000 GPS

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Trimble M3 DR Total Station with accessories for surveying; ​Trimble GeoXH600 GPS with external GIS Tornado antenna

Boats & 4WD Trucks

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