El Niño Scientific facilities
| Institution | CRP responsible scientist |
Facilities | Techniques |
|---|---|---|---|
| U. Arizona | Beck | AMS, ICPMS, IRMS | 14C, 129I, Sr/Ca, U/Ca, Mg/Ca, Mn |
| CSM | Reynaud | Culture of corals in controlled conditions Coral biology lab Pulse Amplitude Modulated (PAM) Microscopes (epifluorescence confocal…) |
Photosynthesis Counting systems, 87Sr, 86Sr, 45Ca, 14C (tracer) |
| Carbon Cycle AMS Lab, U. California (Irvine) | Druffel | AMS, compound specific radiocarbon analyses, GC/MS | 14C, d13C |
| Stanford Stable Isotope Lab | Dunbar | IRMS, SHRIMP, Coral coring equipment | d18O, d13C, d15N (both organic and inorganic phases) |
| ANSTO | Fink | AMS, EA-IRMS (C,N) ICP-AE, ICP-MS, u-PROBE, PIXE, RBS, IBA | 10Be, 14C, 129I, 210Pb, sample prep labs, d13C, C/N ratios Sr/Ca, Mg/Ca, U/Ca |
| U. of Technology Sydney |
Skilbeck | Geotek, Core-logging facility Vibro-coring system Sedimentary laboratory |
Sample preparation labs (logging magnetic susceptibility, density p-wave velocity), Malvern grain size analyser, multiple PAM systems |
| GNS Sciences | Morgenstern | Low Level Counting lab | 32Si, Tritium, d2H, d18O, d13C, 210Pb |
| Weizmann | Boaretto, Weizmann | Low Level counting lab FTIR 14C Prep. Lab Porewater exctraction |
Tritium 14C preparation d18O, d13C |
| IAEA-MEL | Sanchez- Cabeza |
Radiochemistry lab Low-level counting lab 14C Prep. Lab |
14C preparation, d18O, d13C , 210Pb, 90Sr, 137Cs, MXRF, X-ray images, computer topography |
| IMARPE | Gutierrez | Survey ships X-Ray core analysis Coring devices Petrographic/ Epifluorescence Microscope |
Optical core characterization |
| MSS | Al-Rousan | XRD Coral Coring X-Ray, coral coring equipment, coral slicing equipment, coral x-radiography, coral subsampling equipment, XRD, Atomic absorption spectrophotometer | Heavy metals |
| U. Bern (Stanford) | Fleitmann/ Kramers | MC-ICPMS | U/Th dating |
| IRD | Ortlieb | CNS-elemental analyzer FTIR/FTIR microscopy XRD ICP-MS 14C prep lab AMS |
14C, d18O, d13C |
