Infrastructure
The Soil Chemistry Laboratory offers state-of-the-art facilities for conducting innovative research in soil and environmental geochemistry. Facilities include special rooms for sample preparation and storage, temperature-controlled laboratories for experiments under controlled environmental conditions, a plant growth chamber, gloveboxes for anoxic work, and a metal-free clean-room facility for ultra-trace and isotope analyses. Experimental setups are available for reactive transport studies, titration experiments, soil microcosm experiments, and others. Analytical techniques available in the Soil Chemistry Laboratory focus on the characterization of solids (e.g., XRF, XRD, FT-IR) and aqueous solutions (e.g., ICP-OES, ICP-MS, AAS).
Infrasctructure
User Policies
Any work in the Soil Chemistry Laboratory requires prior permission and safety training. Please contact for details. Depending on the type of equipment used, user fees may apply.
We have two types of users in our laboratory:
Master Users: Every analytical instrument has one or two assigned Master Users. The Master Users are responsible for the equipment and its maintenance. They are the only persons who are allowed to train Users of the instruments.
Users: Persons who have been trained by a Master User can become a User of a particular instrument. Users can sign up for time and run their own samples, but they should always contact the Master Users if they have technical problems. Users have to agree to follow specified rules when using the instrument. They are not allowed to train third persons as Users.