GodwinLab

Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research

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We're hiring!
We need an excellent lab technician to join our team, follow the link for details.

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Nu Perspective install is go!

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Unboxing!

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Nu Perspective mass spec being hoisted to its new home.

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Congratulations to Sasha Turchyn and collaborators for a successful bid to the NERC Strategic Capital Call 2020 to fund LASER-ENVI – A LASER spectrometer-based Environmental Gas and Gas-Isotope Facility.

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Nu arrival!
Despite lockdown 3.0, today we've taken delivery of a Nu Perspective IRMS. Installation will happen once normal lab working is resumed.

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Always nervous about saying anything was "the first" because it often turns out that someone has done it before ... but this is the first isotopic palaeoclimate record that I know of from a gypsum speleothem.

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Delta V source cleaning time. Luckily, no bits left over!

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@NanoPaleoMag @EarthSciCam and you're doing a damn good job at it. thank you!

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Getting the lab running again after the Covid-19 lockdown. The venerable SIRA runs a perfect set a Carrara Z standards. The journeyman MAT253/Kiel is also performing well after it's forced hibernation.

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Under the hood: the Gasbench.
The 8 port Valco valve rotates to send aliquots of sample headspace CO2 to the mass spec in a stream of helium carrier gas.

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Repair note: Picarro cavity temperature not stable? These internal fans are the likely culprit. Swap them out for new ones and you should be good to go

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Illustrative cartoon by Simon Crowhurst of what we do....

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Godwin Lab History Vault

December 2005 - The SIRA has a midlife move to it's new home on the first floor of Earth Sciences. It's still going strong!

[Nick Scroxton @StalagNick]

OMG, it's Nick Shackleton's mass spec!squeeeeeeeeee

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Just spent a great couple of days @EarthSciCam chatting stalagmites with @DavidHodell and the Godwin Lab group. And honoured to have given a QDG seminar. Here's a mug shot.

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Here's a rare view of a MAT 253 source in situ. The turbo pump had been removed whilst a leak is investigated

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