"Finally, this is a day we have been waiting for" professor Jostein Bakke says, in the stairways from the basement at the Realfagbygget.
Following are a long line of prominent guests and colleagues at the Institute for Earth Sciences and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research.
Together with Eivind Støren, senior engineer at EARTHLAB, he guides the guests at the opening seminar at tour through the new laboratory fascilities, with short introductions to each instrument cluster. The instrument clusters are located both in the basement and at the institute of Earth Sciences 3.rd floor at Realfagbygget (the Science Building at the Faculty of Mathemathics and Natural Sciences).
The Earth Surface Sediment Laboratory (EARTHLAB) is a national infrastructure for sediment analyses, funded by 16 mill. NOK by the Norwegian Research Council in 2014.
The EARTHLAB contains
EARTHLAB – Sediments
- Sediment scanning
- Grain size
- XRD
EARTHLAB – Chronology
- Lead 210 dating
- Uranium- series chronology
- Preparation lab for cosmogenic dating
EARTHLAB – Magnetics
- Environmental magnetism
EARTHLAB – Field equipment
- LIDAR scanner
- Geotechnical equipment
- Coring devices
Please read more on the technical fascilities here