Laboratory Resources
Our research group is located within the Civil and Environmental Engineering teaching and research laboratories and is associated with SD Mines' Shimadzu Environmental Research Laboratory. The Shimadzu Lab has state-of-the-art instrumentation including: FTIR spectrophotometer, LCMS IT TOF, LCMS and GCMS, automated nutrient analyzer (Lachat) with block digester, tabletop fluorometer, Thermo Finigan CHNS/O elemental analyzer, BIOLOG Microstation, Micro-Oxymax 30 channel respirometer, field water quality analyzer (DATAFLOW), gas chromatograph, centrifuge, incubators, anaerobic chambers, and total organic carbon (TOC) analyzer. The laboratory equipment we use typically includes: water-bath shakers, multiple-temperature shaker/incubators (New Brunswick, Innova 44/44R), anaerobic chambers, spectrophotometer (HP 8452A, UV/VIS), gas chromatography (HP 5890), and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) table-top centrifuges. High resolution - transmission electron microscope (JEOL JEM-2100 LaB6), scanning electron microscope (JEOL JSM-840A; Zeiss Supra 40 variable pressure field emission SEM with a Peltier cooled stage), Bruker hand held x-ray fluorescence (XRF), x-ray diffractometer (XRD), and atomic absorption spectrophotometer (Perkin-Elmer, AA/5000) are also available at SD Mines through the Engineering, Mining and Experiment Station.
Our research group maintains subscriptions to SimaPro LCA modeling software, e!Sankey visualization software, Adobe Acrobat and Illustrator, EndNote, and SigmaPlot in addition to the SD Mines' network licenses to ArcGIS, MiniTab, and Microsoft Office products.
