Laboratories and measuring systems Laboratories and measuring systems
The Physics of Environmental Archives research group is responsible for the operation of numerous laboratories and measuring systems. These facilities include clean rooms, chemistry laboratories, and conventional laboratories for mechanical processing and evaluating sample materials.
The measurement systems of the ETIS platform include numerous mass spectrometer systems and optical spectrometers. The following pictures provide an insight into the existing laboratory infrastructure, which was financed with funds from the DFG, the University of Heidelberg, the Institute of Environmental Physics and the state of Baden-Württemberg. Some of the systems are also used for scientific services and co-operations.
Research infrastructure in pictures
In addition to the mass spectrometer laboratories for the analysis of radioactive and radiogenic isotope systems in water, sediments and secondary carbonates, we operate, together with the research groups of Dr Martina Schmidt and Dr Sophie Warken, numerous measuring systems for the analysis of stable (and clumped) rare isotopes. Concerning the analysis of radiocarbon in water and secondary carbonates, we are in close cooperation with the Curt Engelhorn Centre in Mannheim, which is internationally excellently equipped in the field of radiocarbon dating and supports our work with accelerator mass spectrometer measurements (see cooperation partners). In this context we do not accept scientific orders, these can be addressed directly to the CEM (Dr Ronny Friedrich).
