Facilities - Department of Geosciences

Aqueous chemistry involves a wide range of techniques and methods, from freeze drying and heating to instruments for measurement of chemical components. Photo: Gunn Kristin Tjoflot, UiO

Aqueous Chemistry Laboratory

CLIPT Stable Isotope Laboratory

Electron Microprobe Laboratory

The Thermo TSQ 8000 (gas chromatograph - triple quadrupole mass spectrometer) is the main instrument in the lab, and provides sensitive analyses for example of biomarkers in petroleum. Photo: Gunn K Tjoflot, UiO

Organic Geochemistry Laboratorium

An example for a measurement instrument used in physical oceanography – the Ekman current meter which is used to measure flow in the water. Photo: Eyvind Aas, UiO

Physical oceanography: Marine instruments

Geological samples to be analysed in one of the advanced instruments in our labs have to be prepared in a series of different steps. Photo: Hans Fredrik Asbjørnsen, UiO

Sample preparation facilities in Geosciences

The scanning electron microscope gives high resolution imaging of the smallest details of a rock surface. Photo: Gunn Kristin Tjoflot, UiO

SEM-laboratory – Scanning Electron Microscope

Landing the drone after a successful flight by pilot and operator of the drone Trond Eiken, Senior Engineer at the Department of Geosciences. Photo: Sebastian Westermann, UiO

The Drone Infrastructure Lab

The Atomic Force Microscope –Nanowizard/JPK; the white light interferometer profilometer – ContourGT/Bruker; The HADES apparatus/ ESRF /Grenoble, France. Photo: Yi Hu

The Friction and Interface Laboratory

The ICPMS lab infrastructure consists of several instruments but the main "work" is done by the multicollector MC-ICPMS and the quadrupole Q-ICPMS instrument. Photo: Gunn K. Tjoflot, UiO

The ICPMS Laboratory

The IGGL laboratory is equipped with a variety of state-of-the-art instruments for paleomagnetic and rock-magnetic analyses. Photo: IGGL/UiO

The Ivar Giæver Geomagnetic Laboratory

The flux-tower infrastructure at Finse is a robust research instrument with sensors to collect data for fluxes of heat, CO2 and H2O exchange processes in cold regions. Photo: LATICE, UiO

The LATICE-Flux Infrastructure Lab

Research in the MicroPalLab. Pictures are from left: I) A foraminifera living on the seafloor. Photo: E. Alve. Microfossils: II) Rhaetipollis germanicus (pollen), III) Rhaetogonyaulax rhaetica (dinoflagelatte cyst). The palynomorphs are Late Triassic in age (ca 210 million years old), and taken from the Kössen Formation, Austria. Photo/Microscopy II/III: W. Kürschner.

The Micropaleontology- and Palynological Laboratory

Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry (TIMS). Photo: Gunn Kristin Tjoflot/UiO

TIMS U-Pb Isotope Geology Laboratory

$Two robust instruments are available for analysis at the X-Ray Diffraction and X-Ray Fluorescence labs, the Bruker D8 Advance (XRD) and the Panalytical Axios Max (XRF). Photo: Gunn Kristin Tjoflot, UiO$

X-Ray Diffraction and X-Ray Fluorescence Labs