Iowa State University

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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences

Got a question or comment?
Contact us at 515-294-4477 (geology) or 515-294-4758 (meteorology)
geology@iastate.edu
meteorology@iastate.edu

Carl Jacobson
Chair
Department of Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
253 Science I
Ames, Iowa 50011

FAX: 515-294-6049

William Gallus
Professor-in-Charge
Meteorology Program
3010 Agronomy Hall
515-294-2270

Biogeochemistry Lab



An Agilent A 6890 N gas chromatograph/5973 network mass spectrometer equipped with an Agilent 6893 liquid autosampler.

  • Mass range: 1.6 – 800 u in 0.1 u steps; any subset of this range may be selected by the user
  • Scan rate: scan rates up to 5,200 u/second with 0.1 u scan step size, with eight sampling rates.

An Hewlett Packard 1090 liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-mass spectrometer.

An automated high performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detector and diode-array spectrophotometer and autosampler.

A Barnstead microprocessor-controlled steam sterilizer

Thermo Electron 96-well thermal cycler.

Gel electrophoresis with BIODOC-IT system with M-26

We have designed and assembled a high pressure bioreactor system for cultivating piezophilic bacteria at hydrostatic pressures of up to 100 MPa (1,000 atm). The culture chamber (600 mL) is thermostatted with an external cooling circuit that can maintain temperatures as low as -20oC.

An Innova 4230 benchtop refrigerated incubator shaker

A So-Low freezer