The ASET Laboratory  is a quantitative analytical facility that provides research on some of the most vexing health, safety, and welfare issues facing Alaskans. These issues all relate to toxic substances (both natural and otherwise) in the environment.

The lab is designed specifically to support research with quantitative analytical methods in a number of disciplines including environmental health, quality, and safety, terrestrial and marine biology, geology, and ecology.

The ASET lab’s infrastructure is state-of-the-art and can address organic and inorganic toxic and non toxic substances in ultra low levels in a variety of matrices such as soil, water, rocks, tissue, and plasma

The ASET lab is unique in the sense that it provides a state-of-the-art research facility and concomitant acts as a teaching lab providing hands-on experiences with high-tech analytical instruments.

The ASET lab is administered by the Environment and Natural Resources Institute (ENRI). It occupies remodeled lab space of the Science Building on the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) Campus. In 2009 the ASET lab will move to the Integrated Science Building.

Current research projects that use the ASET lab are manifold including fatty acids and chlorinated fatty acids in sea lions, sea otter, and human plasma, rocket exhaust products in the environment, disinfection by-products in drinking water, arsenic levels by species in drinking water and trace metals in surface water, ground water, and sediments. References to abstracts and paper of research performed using the ASET lab can be found here.

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