The Environment and Natural Resources Institute supports two laboratories.
The Applied Science and Engineering Technology Laboratory (ASET)
This modern analytical facility specializes in the analysis of fatty acids in fish, birds and mammals, inorganic nutrients (NO3 and NH4) in waters, as well as organic and inorganic pollutants such as perchlorate and dissolved carbon and nitrogen in waters. The laboratory also specializes in heavy metal analysis in plants, soils and waters. The facility consist of a Agilent ICP-MS 700C with a reaction cell, Dionex Ion Chromatography, HP-High Pressure Liquid Chromatography, and a Tekmar 900HS total and dissolved carbon analyzer for water samples.
The
Stable Isotope Lab (ENRI-SILS) is a state-of-the-art analytical facility that uses stable isotopes (
dD,
d13C,
d15N,
d18O) to understand biological, hydrologic, climatic and atmospheric processes on short and long time scales. Portions of our research focuses on: a) marine-terrestrial nutrient linkages using
d15N, b) leaf and plant-level carbon (
d13C), water (
d18O &
dD) and nutrient relations in response to natural gradients and climate change experiments and c) metabolic processes of small arctic mammals. The laboratory is leading the analysis of precipitation samples collected each Tuesday across the entire US as apart of the
US Network for Isotopes in Precipitation (USNIP)
