Facilities
The department is equipped to conduct a wide variety of research and teaching activities related to environmental and soil and water sciences.
Departmental instruments include the following:
- Perkin-Elmer 3000DV inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrograph
- CE Elantech Nitrogen Carbon Analyzer
- Malvern Zetasizer III for laser analysis of particle size and electrophoretic mobility
- Mattson Cygnus 100 Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer
- Siemens D500 computerized X-ray diffractometer
- DuPont 9900 computerized thermal analyzer (DSC/DTA)
- Two atomic absorption spectrophotometers (Perkin-Elmer, Varian) with graphite furnace and hydride-vapor generation accessories
- Ten gas chromatographs (Hewlett-Packard, Varian, Shimatsu) with an assortment of detectors (FID, ECD, etc.)
- Seven HPLC/IC systems (Hewlett-Packard, Beckman, Dionex) with UV, electrochemical, conductivity, mass spectrometry, fluorescence, diode array, PAD, and radioisotope detection capabilities
- Three continuous flow analyzer systems (Alpkem, Technicon) for automated analysis of NO3, NH4, PO4, Br, etc.
- Four UV-VIS spectrophotometers with scanning and kinetics capabilities
- Shimadzu total organic carbon analyzer
- Beckman LS 5000TD liquid scintillation counter
- Packard gamma counter
- Three Conviron plant growth chambers with 100,000+ lux lighting and humidity control
- Various plate and shaking liquid culture incubators
- Several laminar flow biosafety cabinets
- High speed and ultraspeed centrifuges
- Walk-in cold rooms
- A living streams facility
- BioRad quantitative PCR thermal cyclers
- Nanodrop UV-Visible spectrophotometer
- BioRad gel imaging system
- Nikon E600 Fluorescence Microscope with attached Hamamatsu cooled-CCD camera
- Greenhouse and field facilities, including boat, drilling systems, department car, etc.
- In addition, the Department's research laboratories currently house approximately 180 personal computers (Windows, Macintosh) and scientific workstations (Unix) that are available for use by students, post-doctoral scholars and staff. Accessories for these computers include three slide imaging systems, optical scanners, and numerous printers and plotters.
Campus facilities include:
- Analytical Chemistry Instrumentation Facility (administered by the Chemistry Department)
- Statewide Air Pollution Research Center
- Institute for Integrative Genome Biology Genomics Core Facility
- Center for Plant Cell Biology Microscopy and Imaging Core Facility
- Center for Plant Cell Biology Bioinformatics Core Facility
- Center for Plant Cell Biology Proteomics Core Facility
- Central Facility for Advanced Microscopy and Microanalysis
- Center for Nanoscale Engineering
- UCR Statistical Consulting Collaboratory
- Agricultural Operations
Other, associated facilities include:
- San Dimas Experimental Forest: more...
- U.S. Department of Agriculture Salinity Lab
- UC Natural Reserve System