Cutting-edge tools to understand our planet
Shared analytical facilities in the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences are labs that enable efficiencies of time, knowledge, and resources. They are school supported, funded, and staffed, and are shared by faculty, staff, and students across the university. Stanford Earth also maintains advanced computing facilities and is the location of Stanford's Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections.
Visit our shared analytical facilities
Many of our students and faculty start their examination of specimens in our comprehensive Earth Materials Preparation lab. Assessment and measurement resources are available in our collection of shared labs which offer everything from gas, liquid, and solid analyses to isotopic analysis for geochronology and deciphering (bio)geochemical processes.
Learn more about our facilities
Or click on a lab to the right.
Geochronology Cluster
SHRIMP-RG, Noble Gas, Fission Track labs
Microchemical Analysis Facility
Electron microprobe and SEM
Plasma Lab
Multicollector ICPMS, TIMS, and clean lab
EARTH MATERIALS PREPARATION LAB
Crushing, coring, washing, separation
Environmental Measurements Facility
Instrumentation to test the composition and concentration of liquids, particles, and gases
Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry Lab
Carbon, oxygen, nitrogen stable isotope measurements
For more information...
...about how to utilize our Shared Analytical Labs, contact lab manager Katie Dunn at kadunn@stanford.edu