Welcome to the Yale Geochemistry Center, a premier facility led by Principal Investigators Noah Planavsky and Alan Rooney. Our center boasts a world-class trace element facility, featuring a metal-free Picotrace class ten clean room lab with 12 hoods and 12 dry down stations, including two perchloric acid hoods for efficient total rock digests.

We are equipped with several high-sensitivity and precision inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers, including the Thermo Finnigan Neptune-Plus multi-collector ICP-MS, the Thermo Finnigan Element XR magnetic sector ICP-MS, and the Thermo Finnigan Triton Plus multicollector TIMS.

Adjacent to our center is the Microprobe Facility, housing a JEOL Hyperprobe electron microprobe. Both facilities are supported by full-time technicians, with partial lab maintenance costs covered by the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Our department also maintains a standard sample preparation facility equipped with saws, clean powdering mills, and updated machinery for making thin sections. Additionally, our petrography center features a scanning electron microscope with a technician and several light microscopes.

For more detailed information, including images of our lab facilities and insights into our research focus, please visit our People, Research, Publications, Facility, and News pages. Join us at the Yale Geochemistry Center as we delve into the intricate chemical processes of Earth, fostering scientific discovery and innovation.