Experimental Lab

• Technical experts: John Visser, Alexander Hoogenboom, Nadia Breugelmans
• Scientific advisors: Helen King, Inge Loes ten Kate, Mariette Wolthers
• Contact: info.geolab@uu.nl

With our experiments and analyses, we unravel what happens - or happened - in the Earth’s environment and beyond.

What we do

If no (automated) instrumentation is available to generate data for certain research questions, experimental setups become inevitable. Therefore, we allocate room and equipment for non-conventional sample treatments and analyses of all sorts.

We can provide pre-existing (experimental) methods and facilitate experimentation to establish new customized methods or to adjust existing methods. The projects in our lab include:

• Synthesis of minerals
• Treatment/preparation of environmental samples before analysis (e.g., sequential extractions)
• Flow experiments through sedimentation/sand layers in acetate columns

In addition to standard laboratory equipment, chemicals and consumables, we accommodate high-end analytical instruments, gloveboxes to work under oxygen-free conditions, climate-controlled, clean rooms as well as lab space and a biosafety cabinet for bacterial incubations (biosafety level 2).