Lab - Yale Metal Geochemistry and Geochronology Center
The Geochemistry Center at Yale University has a world-class trace element facility. The lab is equipped with 12 hoods and 12 dry down stations within a metal free Picotrace class-ten clean room designed for trace element geochemistry and isotopic analysis, including two perchloric acid hoods for efficient total rock digests. The center also houses several high-sensitivity and precision inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers, including a Thermo Finnigan Neptune-Plus multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer and a Thermo Finnigan ElementXR magnetic sector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer, both of which can be coupled with a New Wave laser ablation system. We also have several cavity ring-down mass spectrometers for greenhouse gas flux measurements and a rock characterization lab with a BET and a particle size analyzer.
Yale Geochemistry Center's Advanced Facilities and Research Initiatives
The Yale Geochemistry Center, led by principal investigators Noah Planavsky and Alan Rooney, is renowned for its world-class trace element facility. It features a state-of-the-art Picotrace class ten clean room lab equipped with 12 hoods and precision mass spectrometers. These facilities support groundbreaking research into Earth's geological and atmospheric history, offering insights into how trace elements influence climate processes and planetary habitability.
User pricing for the facilities are as follows:
Neptune
$800/day - internal users or external non profit
$1500/day - external for profit users
Element
$800/day - internal users or external non profit
$1500/day - external for profit users
Laser Ablation
$100/day - internal users
$200/day - external non-profit users
$400/day - external for profit users
iCAP
$200/day - internal users
$400/day - external non-profit users
$500/day - external for profit users
TIMS Analysis
$2000/day - internal users or external non-profit users
$4000/day - external for profit users
Lab manager time and training
$700/day - internal users or external non-profit users
$1000/day - external for profit users
Sample Preparation
$100/sample - internal users or external non profit
$200/sample - external for profit users
Re abundance test + chemical separation
$100/sample - internal users or external non-profit users
$200/sample - external for profit users
For isotope analysis and more information, please contact Dan Asael for ICP-MS lab work or Alan Rooney (alan.rooney@yale.edu) for TIMS lab.