Technology Opportunities

Function

• The laboratory actively engages in research relating to
• Geochemistry
• Marine geochemistry
• Environmental geochemistry
• Low temperature geochemistry
• Metamorphic petrology
• Fluid-rock interactions
• Biogeochemistry of oceanic trace metals
• Geochemistry of natural solutions
• Radioactivity of groundwater

Advantages

• The geochemical laboratories employ highly knowledgeable, skilled researchers employing state-of-the-art technologies and equipment.

Available equipment

• Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectrometer (ICP-OES; Perkin Elmer Optima 3000)
• Atomic Absorption (AA ; Perkin-Elmer PC-5100 ZL) with two modules
• Graphite Zeeman-effect corrected furnace (HGA) for analyses of low concentrations of trace metals
• Flame AA for quick analysis of cations at higher concentrations
• Luminescence Spectrometer (Perkin Elmer LS30)
• UV/vis Spectrophotometer (Camspec single beam M330)
• Flow Injection Analyzers (FIA) for analyzing nutrients and iron
• Ion Chromatograph

Available equipment at the Geological Survey of Israel (for us to use)

• Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS; Perkin Elmer SCIEX, CDR II)
• Multi Collector Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (MC-ICP-MS; Nu Instruments)

Staff

• Yigal Erel, PhD
• Boaz Lazar, PhD
• Amitai Katz, PhD
• Alan Mathews, PhD
• Yeala Shaked, PhD
• Abraham Starinsky, PhD

Contact

• Boaz Lazar, PhD, boaz.lazar@huji.ac.il