After a 2+ month hiatus sheltering at home with Dr. Amy Williams and Mr. Baby, I’m back in the Experimental Geochemistry Lab working hard on getting the instruments up and running! I tested negative for COVID-19 and UF has strict social distancing and other safety measures in place, so given that, it’s as safe as […]
The renovation and instrument installation in the Experimental Geochemistry Lab is finally complete! Now it’s time to get the two Rockland piston cylinders and the Deltech gas mixing furnace up and running. There’s a lot of really cool experiments to be done and I’m really looking forward to actually doing some science with these toys. […]
The UF Experimental Geochemistry Lab is almost ready! The contractors are hard at work and moving quickly. The cabinets and temperature controllers for the two piston cylinders are installed, the new floor is going in this week, and the instruments themselves (two piston cylinders and a Deltech furnace) will be installed soon. We expect the […]
Its a super exciting day at UF. Our two end-loaded piston cylinder presses are now here!!! They were delivered yesterday from Rockland Research Corp. in New York and I can’t wait to get them setup! These will allow our research group to simulate conditions up to ~4 GPa in pressure and ~2000 C. The Experimental […]
The Experimental Geochemistry Lab’s one-atmosphere gas mixing furnace has arrived! The furnace, in the large crate on the right, is made by Deltech Furnaces and can reach 1800 C with precise control on redox conditions inside the tube. These furnaces are widely used in experimental petrology and geochemistry for an equally wide range of experiments […]
The crew working on the renovations of Williamson Hall 106, the future Experimental Geochemistry Lab, has finally gotten all of the vibration-isolating concrete left over from the days of this room as a micro-Kelvin physics lab broken up and out of the lab! The next steps are to finish the demo of all of the […]
The Planetary Geochemistry Group has opportunities for highly motivated students seeking graduate degrees with an emphasis in Planetary Petrology and Geochemistry. Potential projects cover a wide range of topics including geochemical, mineralogical, and isotopic studies of planetary differentiation and core formation, the origin and evolution of the Moon’s crust and mantle, and the origins of […]
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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