General geophysical equipment
Steve Sheriff

• Worden & Scintrex CG3 gravity meters
• GEM magnetometer & gradiometer
• Geometrics cesium magnetometer with GPS guidance
• Syscal 12 channel resistivity switch
• Geonics EM-31 ground conductivity meter
• Trimble PRO-XRS sub-meter GPS
• EG&G 24-channel seismograph
• UNIX and NT workstations
• Mala Ground Penetrating Radar

Environmental Biogeochemistry Laboratory
Heiko Langner

• Inductively Coupled Plasma Emission Spectrometer for metal/elemental analysis (TJA Model IRIS ICP)
• Ion Chromatograph for inorganic anions, organic acids etc. (Dionex DX-500 IC)
• C, N, H, S, O Elemental Analyzer for elements in solids (CE Instruments Model EA1110)
• Carbon Analyzer for inorganic C in solids (Coulometrics)
• Total Organic Carbon Analyzer for organic C in liquids (Shimadzu Model TOC-5000A)
• Grain Size Analyzer (Malvern Instruments Model Mastersizer 2000)
• Mercury Analyzer (Leeman Labs Model Hydra AF Atomic Fluorescence Spectrophotometer)
• Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (Varian)
• Two X-Ray diffraction systems
• Portable pH, DO, ISE, Alkalinity meters etc.
• Portable Hach test kits including Spectrophotometer (Hach Model DR/2000)
• Laminar flow workstations, centrifuges
• Boat with motor and trailer

Elemental Analysis Clean Lab
Donna Smith

• Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer for low level metals and isotope analysis (Perkin Elmer Elan DRC-e)
• High Pressure Liquid Chromatograph for separation of metal organic complexes (Perkin Elmer Series 200)

Rock Cutting Lab
George Stanley

• A full rock cutting facility including slab and trim diamond saws, a thin section cut-off saw, grinding wheels, and impregnation and polishing equipment for thin section and mineral grain mount preparation.

Sedimentology Lab
Marc Hendrix

• Ten meter flume, research microscope, Unix and Mac workstations.

Snow & Ice Research Equiptment
Joel Harper

• Backpackable steam drill for drilling boreholes to 13 m depth
• Lightweight hand auger for drilling 2.5 cm diameter holes in ice to 2 meters
• Borehole video system for real time viewing and recording of water filled boreholes.
• 4 Trimble R7 GPS receivers (survey grade)
• Trimble Real Time Kinematic radio communications kit for R7 receivers.
• Tokkia Snowfork Probe
• Two Onset meteorological stations with sensors for temperature, precipitation, humidity, solar radiation, and barometric pressure
• Multiple Campbell CR10x data loggers, and numerous Campbell Scientific sensors and accessories including multiplexers and switching devices
• Fluke 199 field oscilloscope
• Ice Penetrating Radar System with 5, 10 and 20 MHz antennas
• Snow machine and large enclosed sled for hauling field equipment over snow
• Two large capacity Mountain Hardware floorless dome tents for use as instrumentation shelters in wet or windy conditions

Groundwater lab
Bill Woessner

• Several Pentium MS/Windows computers & modeling software
• Digitizer, printers, intranet, ground water and graphics software
• Tapes, digital recorders, water level recorders, rain gauges, etc
• GEOPROBE 5400, mounted on a 4WD truck, to install small-diameter multi-level groundwater samplers and to core soils.

Paleomagnetism lab
Steve Sheriff

• Schonstedt SSM-1A spinner magnetometer, digital interface
• Molyneux AF demagnetizer
• Schonstedt SM-25 lab magnetometer
• Applied magnetics 10-kGauss electromagnet
• Pomeroy drilling systems
• Sapphire & Bartington susceptibility equipment

X-ray Crystallography Facilities
Nancy Hinman

• Two x-ray diffraction systems (one digital instrument)
• Computers with interpretation and modeling software
• ICE centrifuge and all necessary sample preparation equipment
• Fourier transform infra-red spectrometer

Petrography Lab
Julie Baldwin

• Assorted petrographic, binocular stereomicroscopes, and reflected light microscopes for teaching
• Leica DM-LP petrographic microscope
• Leica Z6 Apo petrographic macroscope
• Leica MZ 9.5 stereomicroscope for grain picking
• Diagnostic Instruments Insight Spot Digital Camera

Rock Crushing , Powdering, & Mineral Separation Lab (under construction)
Julie Baldwin

• Bico jaw crusher
• Bico rotary disk mill
• Frantz Magnetic Barrier separator
• Roger's water table
• Shaker sieves
• Fume hood for heavy liquids mineral separation
• Spex shatterbox with alumina insert

Geodesy Lab
Rebecca Bendick

• Five Trimble R7 Geodetic GPS Systems
• Various analytical software

Paleontology Lab
Visit Our Paleontology Research and Collections Facility
George Stanley

• Acid Lab, collections, thin section equipment
• Paleontology research museum
• Fossil preparation equiptment - air abrasive unit, dental lath
• Digital cameras and photo equiptment
• Computer and collections database

Geomorphology Research Equipment
Andrew Wilcox

• Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP)
• Mechanical and acoustic current meters
• Trimble 5700 RTK-GPS receivers
• Trimble robotic total station
• Assorted survey equipment (tapes, stadia rods, levels)
• Bedload and suspended load measuring equipment
• Bed sediment sampling equipment
• Sediment lab (Rotap shaker, balance, sieves)
• Boats
  

Other Facilities:

The Geology and Physics Computer Teaching Lab - SC 11

• This multi-media lab is used for teaching computer intensive classes in Geology and Physics. The room hosts 19 2.8GHz Pentium 4 (1GB RAM) computers for students and is equipted with an LCD projection of the instructor's computer.

The Geology and Biology Field Research Center

• Our 1998 Field Research Center located near the Bitterroot River approximately 4.5 miles west of the main campus combines facilities from the Division of Biological Sciences and the Department of Geology. The Center houses the Department of Geology's new Environmental Earth Systems Research Laboratory (EESRL). The facility consists of 1,400 square feet of developed space allocated to a workshop, hydrogeologic-geochemical labs and constant temperature chambers. The purpose of this facility is two-fold: to design, develop and construct innovative hydrogeologic and geochemical field sampling and monitoring equipment, and; to conduct experiments elucidating the geochemical processes influenced by microbes in groundwater and vadose zone environments. A second 1,600 square feet of will be developed for the hydraulic and physical characterization of soils, unconsolidated sediments and sedimentary rock cores. The facility is used by students working on interdisciplinary problems in Geology and Microbiology directed by Bill Woessner, Johnnie Moore, Jim Gannon, and Marc Hendrix.

The Student Computing & Graphics Lab - SC 305

• Eight 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 computers, networked laser printer, internet access, film recorder, scanner, etc. We usually purchase whatever software students need for research and homework. There are multiple computers, with specialized software, in most other labs as well.