Research Facilities

Following are research facilities in or related to the department.

Please send inquiries directly to the facility's contact for more details, including what services may or may not be available to other users.

Analytical Aqueous Geochemistry Lab

photo of instruments in the hydrothermal lab

 

  • Contact: William E. Seyfried, Jr.
  • Location: John T. Tate Hall, room 440-04
    • Facility available to
      --UMN customers? - No
      --non-UMN customers? - No
    • Service available to
      --UMN customers?- No
    • --non-UMN customers?- No

CSE Characterization Facility - a CSE Facility

photo of microscope in the charfac facility
  • Contact: [email protected]
  • 100 Union Street SE, Shepherd Labs
    • Facility available to
      --UMN customers? - Yes
      --non-UMN customers? - Yes
    • Service available to
      --UMN customers?- Yes
    • --non-UMN customers?- Yes

Continental Scientific Drilling Facility

two workers drilling core samples

 

  • Contact: Anders Noren
  • Location: 116 Church Street SE, John T. Tate Hall room 175
    • Facility available to
      --UMN customers? - Yes
      --non-UMN customers? - Yes
    • Service available to
      --UMN customers?- Yes
    • --non-UMN customers?- Yes

Electron Microprobe Laboratory

  • Contact: Patricia Kang
  • Location: John T. Tate Hall, room S104, S100
    • Facility available to
      --UMN customers? - Yes
      --non-UMN customers? - Yes
    • Service available to
      --UMN customers?- Yes
    • --non-UMN customers?- Yes

Institute for Rock Magnetism

  • Contact: Maxwell Brown, Facility Manager
  • Location: John T. Tate Hall, room 240
    • Facility available to
      --UMN customers? - Yes
      --non-UMN customers? - Yes
    • Service available to
      --UMN customers?- No
    • --non-UMN customers?- Yes

Isotope Geochemistry Lab

  • Contact: Xinyuan Zheng
  • Location: John T. Tate Hall
    • Facility available to
      --UMN customers? - Yes
      --non-UMN customers? - Yes
    • Service available to
      --UMN customers?- No
    • --non-UMN customers?- Yes

Large Lakes Observatory, UM-Duluth

Machine Shop and Rock Sample Preparation Facility

  • Contacts: Christian Teyssier (New user training and access), Mark Griffith (Machine Shop and general facilities inquiries or issues) 
  • Location: John T. Tate Hall, room S50
    • Facility available to
      --UMN customers? - Yes
      --non-UMN customers? - Yes (with permission)
    • Service available to
      --UMN customers?- No
    • --non-UMN customers?- No

Minnesota Supercomputing Institute - University Facility

Paleoenvironmental/Marine Palynology Laboratory

  • Contact: Vera Pospelova
  • Location: John T. Tate Hall, room S79 (1&2)
    • Facility available to
      --UMN customers? - No
      --non-UMN customers? - No
    • Service available to
      --UMN customers?- No
    • --non-UMN customers?- No

Polar Biogeochemistry Lab

  • Contact: Joel Barker
  • Location: John T. Tate Hall, room S79-06
    • Facility available to
      --UMN customers? - Yes
      --non-UMN customers? - Yes
    • Service available to
      --UMN customers?- No
    • --non-UMN customers?- No

Polar Geospatial Center

St. Anthony Falls Laboratory - a CSE Facility

Surface Processes Instrumentation Laboratory

  • Contact: Andrew Wickert, PI
  • Location: John T. Tate Hall, room 125
  • Facilities/equipment list: soldering stations, Pick-and-place, Reflow oven, CNC mill, 3D printer, basic fabrication tools, Geochronology (OSL and 14C) basic sample prep, Linux workstations
    • Facility available to
      --UMN customers? - Yes
      --non-UMN customers? - Yes
    • Service available to
      --UMN customers?- No
    • --non-UMN customers?- No

X-ray Computed Tomography (XRCT) Lab

*If a UMN student or researcher would like to utilize the lab they MUST contact the lab PIs who share similar research interests.