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Signal Hill Environmental Chemistry Lab
Housed in the Department of Geosciences, this state-of-the art facility is funded with an endowment from Signal Hill Petroleum. It currently has an inner clean room with 3 laminar flow-hoods, a Dionex ICS-5000 Ion Chromatograph, a Perkin-Elmer LS 45 Fluorescence spectrometer, and a Cary 50 UV/Vis Spectrophotometer.
The Center is a repository of subsurface data and logs for over 14,000 well in southern California as well as offshore seismic data.
The Department of Geological Sciences is a founding member of IIRMES, which is a joint research facility operated by the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and the College of Liberal Arts. IIRMES is a CSUPERB CORE Facility with extensive analytical equipment including a Perkin Elmer 6100 ICP-MS, GCB Optimas ICP-MS with laser ablation system, FEI Quanta 200 ESEM, and Agilent 5975 GC/MS. For a complete list of instrumentation and contacts, click on the link.
SCMI a consortium of several California State University Campuses, University of Southern California, and Occidental College. It provides access to three ocean-going research vessels, support staff, and dockside facilities.
Instrumentation and Equipment
Field Equipment
- Trimble R8 Differential GPS system
- Trimble GEOXH
- Leitz total station laser surveying system
- AGI Supersting R8 Electrical Resistivity Imager
- LaCoste-Romberg high-precision gravimeter
- land-based seismic reflection/refraction system with weight-drop energy source and 24-channel land seismic data acquisition system
- marine multi-channel seismic reflection system that includes a digital 24-channel hydrophone streamer and uniboom and sparker energy sources
- Konica Minolta CM-2600d Handheld spectrophotometer
- Livingstone piston coring system with 35 m of drive rod
- PYLONEX HTH Gravity Corer
- YSI MDS water quality meter w/650 Sonde and 200 foot cable
- water sampling equipment including a Kemmerer trace element sampler
- inflatable raft system
- three 8-passenger 4WD field vehicles
- bladder pump for sampling deep well water
- Grundfos Redi-flow2 pumps for low rate pumping and sampling in wells
- Two Oryx Fiber Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing systems..
Analytical Equipment
- Delta-XP Gas source mass spectrometer coupled with
- Gasbench II auto sampler
- TC/EA autosampler
- New Wave MIR-10 CO2 laser coupled to a fluorination line
- CosTech CHN elemental analyzer
- iXRF Systems "Iridium Ultra" combined X-ray fluorescence and electron-beam energy dispersive spectroscopy system, mounted on the FEI Quanta 200 environmental scanning electron microscope
- Saturn DigiSizer™ particle size analyzer with autosampler
- UIC® Carbon/Sulfur Coulometer
- Dionex ICS-5000 ion chromatograph equipped with dual AS-DV autosamplers for simultaneous cation and anion measurements
- Perkin Elmer LS 45 Fluorescence Spectrometer
- Varian Cary® UV-VIS spectrophotometer
- Bruker Optik Alpha-P FT-IR spectrometer
- PIMA portable infrared spectrometer
- Rigaku Miniflex x-ray diffractometer with X’Pert Highscore plus peak identification software
- petrographic thin section-making equipment and microdrill system
- fluid inclusion heating/freezing stage
- ModulyoD® freeze-drier
Computational Equipment/Software
- Linux workstations and SIOSEIS seismic data processing software
- 24-station computer lab
- digitizer tablet
- 42" HP color inkjet plotter
- 3-D subsurface visualization and mapping software for seismic and well logs (IHS Kingdom Suite; Schlumberger Petrel)
- GIS software (MapInfo and ArcGIS)
- Analytical software (Matlab, Origin 8.0)
- Kingdom Suite geophysical processing software
- Groundwater Vistas Numerical Modeling software.
