The Aquatic Chemistry Group have a wide range of facilities at their disposal:

• Clean laboratory facilities including laminar flow cabinets
  
  
• Electrothermal atomic absorption spectroscopy - Perkin Elmer 4100 ZL and AS-70
  
  

• Thermo X-Series X7 ICP-MS : Incorporating different sample introduction systems:
  • New Wave UP-213 Laser Ablation introduction system for solid samples
  • Aradis sample desolvation system
    
    
• Flow injection equipment - Hitachi U-2001 Spectrophotometer
  
  
• Extensive voltammetric equipment - Metrohm & Ecochemie
  
  
• Dionex - Ion exchange system for measuring major cations and anions
  
  
• Extensive fieldwork equipment for water and sediment sampling
  • Gel Deployment System for Benthic Lander
  • In Situ Deployment System - Freshwater Lander for gel probe deployment
  • Jenkin Corer
  • Water column profiler (Oxygen, pH)

Radiochemical facilities include:

• Dedicated radiochemical laboratories
  
  
• Low-level liquid scintillation spectrometry with alpha/beta separation
  (Packard Tri-Carb 3170 TR)
  
  
• 3 HPGe gamma detectors, including 1 low-energy detector
  
  
• 16 silicon surface-barrier alpha detectors
  
  
• Gas-flow proportional alpha/beta counter