Facilities

Facilities

Facilities associated with the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the University of Minnesota are located at different sites on and near campus. Most are in one of the following buildings: Pillsbury Hall (main department building), Civil Engineering, Kolthoff Hall, Shepherd Laboratories, and the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory.

Geochemical-Lab (Rick Knurr)

Aqueous Geochemistry Lab (Seyfried; lab manager: Rick Knurr)

Biogeochemical Cycles Lab (Matsumoto)

Characterization Facility (college facility)

• Electron Backscattered Diffraction (EBSD)
• Transmission Electron Microscopy

Computer Lab (department facility; IT guru: Charles Nguyen)

Electron Microprobe Lab (department facility; lab manager: Anette von der Handt)

 Experimental Petrology Lab (Hirschmann; lab manager: Jed Mosenfelder)

Gibson Computational Hydrogeology Lab (Saar)

Hydrogeochemistry Lab (EC Alexander; lab manager: Scott Alexander)

Institute for Rock Magnetism (Moskowitz; lab manager: Mike Jackson)

Large Lakes Observatory-Duluth (Colman)

Limnological Research Center (Ito)

LRC Core Lab and LacCore, National Lacustrine Core Repository (lab manager: Amy Myrbo)

Mineral Separation and Sample Preparation Facility (Whitney, Fayon, Seaton)

Minnesota Isotope Lab

• TIMS Lab (Edwards; lab manager: Hai Cheng)

Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI)

National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED)

Rock Deformation Lab (Kohlstedt; lab manager: Mark Zimmerman)

Saint Anthony Falls Lab

Stable Isotope Lab

Thermochronology: Fission Track Lab (Fayon)

X-Ray Computed Tomography Lab (lab manager: Brian Bagley)