The first shipment of parts for our two new end-loaded piston cylinders arrived today from Rockland Research Corp! This first shipment contains the four pressure vessels, which contain the high-pressure experiments and keep them at the high pressures of planetary interiors. This also contains the stack components for the piston cylinders, which are all of […]
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The brand new Experimental Geochemistry Lab is going to be an awesome facility where we can conduct a wide range of experiments, but the space that it’s going into needs more than a little work. The lab space in Williamson hall was formerly occupied by a low-temperature physics lab, part of the larger Microkelvin research […]
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Today marks my first day on the faculty in the Department of Geological Sciences at UF, so today is also the first day for the UF Planetary Geochemistry group! Obviously the group is just me at this point, but I’m looking for new members! If you are a student looking for grad school opportunities in […]
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