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Facilities in Geography, Geology and the Environment

All of the laboratories in the William Smith Building have been refurbished over the past few years to provide up-to-date teaching and research facilities. The images below show some of these laboratories. In addition, staff and students have the use of facilities and equipment in the Lennard-Jones building housing Chemistry, Physics and Forensic Science.

We have the following equipment:

• Niton hand-held X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer
• Hitachi bench-top TM3000 Scanning Electron Microscope with EDX analytical attachment
• Coulter particle-size analyser
• Diones Ion Chromatograph

Geochemistry Laboratory	Water Chemistry Laboratory
Dionex Ion Chromatograph for water analysis	Sediments Laboratory
Crushing Room for reducing rocks to a powder for subsequent analysis	Cold Room for research into Ice
Beaver Laboratory used for lectures, practicals and computer classes	New lab being used for a microscopy practical
Newly refurbished Mineralogy/Petrology Lab