University of Arizona Service

Tucson Arizona has been the hot (literally) destination for the Sercon team this month.

Just before Garry Armstrong’s attendance at the Winter Plasma Conference and his tour of Associate Professor Soumaya Belmecheri’s Tree Ring Lab at the University of Arizona, Sercon’s Senior Field Service & Installation Engineer Dave Harris was on site to service their HS2022, PyroEArth & Cryo-LA with laser.

The instruments are mainly used for laser ablation of tree ring samples, (δ¹³C from CO₂ analysis using cryo-trapping). HTEA Pyrolysis for δ ¹⁸O (CO analysis) & δ HD data. Dual δ ¹⁵N & δ ¹³C data (produced via combustion/reduction N₂ & CO₂ analysis), all from tree and possibly soil samples. Soumaya has also been working with Elina at LUKE (Finland’s Natural Resources Institute) in Helsinki (another of our customers) to establish a 18O laser ablation method.

For those of you who follow us for our travel blogs, here are some of the photo’s Dave managed to take in the Sonoran Desert as well as at a local jazz club Soumaya took him to one evening.

Regular service plans are available to support all our installations around the world.

Meanwhile, if you’d like to talk to us about applications of LA-IRMS in your research, just email us, we’d love to hear from you.

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