CSULB's Institute of Integrative Research of Materials, The Environment and Society (IIRMES) and Signal Hill Laboratory house state-of-the-art analytical instruments for isotope (stable and radioactive) analysis as well as for concentration measurements of environmental tracers at trace levels of parts per million (ppm), parts per billion (ppb), and even parts per trillion (ppt). This includes Volatile and Semi Volatile Organic compounds like Petroleum Hydrocarbons, Industrial Solvents, Explosives, Pharmaceuticals & Personal Care Products (PPCPs), and Endocrine Disruptors like Organochlorine Pesticides, Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) and Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs).

 

 

Major instruments in the laboratories include:

 

Picarro G2131-i Carbon-13 Analyzer plus AutoMate DIC peripheral

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Finnigan MAT Delta-XP Stable Isotope Gas-ratio Mass Spectrometer plus GasBench peripheral

 

FEI Quanta 200 Analytical Scanning Electron Microscope with Oxford EDS/EDX

 

GBC Optimass orthogonal TOF ICP-MS and New Wave 213 LUV Laser Ablation System

 

Perkin Elmer 6100 Dynamic Reaction Cell (DRC) ICP-MS with coupled 2D Beckman HPLC and dual Diode array spectrophotometers

 

Riso TUOSL-DA-15 Luminescence Reader

 

Veeco Nanoscope III Multimode Scanning Probe Microscope

 

Agilent 5975 Inert MSD Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometer (GC/MS)

 

Isothermal Titration Calorimeter

 

Dionex ICS 5000 ion chromatography system

 

Durridge RAD7 Radon in air/water analyzer plus RAD H2O, RAD Aqua, etc. peripherals

 

Perkin Elmer LS45 Fluorescence Spectrometer

 

Varian 50 Scan UV-visible Spectrophotometer

 

RIGAKU Miniflex X-ray diffractometer

 

Hach, Sper field titrators and probes

 

 

Please contact Benjamin Hagedorn for more information on instrumentation and rates