Yale Institute for
Biospheric Studies
Research
Centers
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Links
Suppliers are U.S.
based or
U.S. office, unless otherwise specified. Disclaimer: These links
are not listed in any particular order, and we are not endorsing any
particular company. The links are usually to the main web site,
though some are to the area of interest only. In some cases notes
are included with the name to help us remember who they are.
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Elemental analysis supplies:
Costech
Analytical Supplies
Exeter Analytical
Elemental
Microanalysis (UK)
SerCon (Europa, UK)
IVA
Analysentechnik e.K (Germany, TC/EA, GCC, GC-TC)
Labco
(UK, Exetainers, GasBench)
Hekatech
(Germany, EA, TC-O--flow through glassy C only)
CE Elantech (Carlo-Erba/Thermo Flash EA's)
UIC Inc (also TIC/TOC/sulfites)
OI Analytical (TOC--connected to IRMS)
Alpha Resources (carbon and sulfur in steel)
Septa (see also Chromatography below), PCTFE (Kel-F):
Plastic Profiles
Professional Plastics
Advanced Plastic Technologies (APT, Rhode Island)
Alumina Tubing/Heating elements/Furnace supplies:
International
Ceramic Engineering (large bore)
Bolt
Technical Ceramics (a division of Morgan Advanced Ceramics)
Coors Tek
Ortech Advanced Ceramics (large bore)
McDanel Ceramics
SentroTech (ceramics, MoSi2 heating elements)
Kanthal Globar (high temp heating elements, $300 min order)
MHI Inc. (high temp heating elements, min order >$300?)
Mellen Company (heating elements, rebuilds)
Omega Engineering (temperature/termocouples/ceramics)
see also Elemental Analysis supplies above, and your OEM.
Gases:
Airgas
Oztech
Trading Corporation
Spectra Gases (high
purity CO, 18O water)
GTS
Gases (CO with 18O around smow)
Merriam-Graves
(GTS gas supplier-northeast)
Scott
Specialty Gases
IGX
Group (Specialty, BrF5 ?)
Advanced Research Chemicals, Inc., (BrF5 ? or try ClF3)
Pfaltz & Bauer (rare and fine chemicals, isotopes)
Alltech (small cylinders,
pure gases and gas mixtures)
and Gas Handling:
Swagelok
(Cajon)
Hoke
(Gyrolok)
Parker
(Parker-Hannifin, Veriflo)
(see also chromatography)
Vacuum
Supplies/Repairs (see: laboratory suppliers and used/repair):
Duniway
Vacuum Corp (used, refurbished).
Capitol
Vacuum (used, repair, turbo)
A
& J Vacuum Services (used, repair, turbo)
Nor-Cal
Products (seals)
A and N
Corporation (connectors)
Alert
Scientific (repair)
Pfeiffer Vacuum (roughing, turbo, repairs)
oerlikon Leybold vacuum systems
Adixen (Alcatel Vacuum)
Precision Plus Vacuum parts
Edwards Vacuum
Welch Vacuum
Vacuum Pump Supply Co.
PTB Sales (oil diffusion rebuilds)
Varian pumps (includes diffusion)
Glass/O-Rings:
Ace
Kimble-Kontes
ChemGlass (also via VWR)
SP Industries (includes Wilmad and
Virtis)
Heraeus
Quartz Glass basic products (worldwide)
Wale Apparatus
Wilmad/LabGlass (Rob)
Specialty Bottle
MoreBeer (glass carboys)
Allorings.com (o-rings, Marco Rubber)
Yale Chemistry Glass Shop
Mass Specs--light Stable Isotope related:
Thermo-Bremen
(Finnigan MAT)
Thermo
(brochures, application reports w/out logging in)
GVI (VG, Micromass,
Waters "Inorganic Div"-bought by Thermo)
Mass Spec Solutions
(services GVI mass specs)
Scientific Inst.
Services (source cleaning/rebuild filaments)
Used/Refurbished/Repair
Equipment:
Labx
Genentech (pumps, etc.)
Compco
Analytical, Inc. (GC-MS)
Scientific Inst.
Services (pump repair kits, etc.)
Alert
Scientific (repair)
see also Spectroscopy Now
Standard Materials and Info:
Stable Isotope Suppliers:
Cambridge Isotope Labs
Spectra Gases (18O
water)
ICON
Isotopes
Omicron Biochemicals (sugars, nucleosides)
some examples from Isogeochem
site:
Special
Stuff:
nafion drying tubes: PermaPure
halogen lamps (heaters), other: Express
Lighting
Bulbtronics
Apple ][e: Shreve Systems
B
and R
PC Parts (check Yale
Purchasing too): Tiger Direct
for software purchases, see software below
CTC Leaptech Autosampler: Leaptec
Micro Mill from NewWave
Special needles (see also Chromatography
and General
supplies, both McMaster-Carr
(stainless capillary tubing) and Small
Parts): Popper and Sons
General
Laboratory Supplies:
Yale Stockrooms:
Chemistry
Kline
Biology Tower
Medical
School
Traffic
Receiving and Stores
Yale Safety "Free
Chemicals"
also check out Yale Procurement office
(eportal/sciquest)
Chromatography: Grace Davison Discovery (Alltech)
Restek
Scientific Inst.
Services
SGE
Supelco
Chromatography Research Supplies (carry ZF1V)
CSS Analytical
Chemicals: Alfa Aesar (also via VWR)
Sigma-Aldrich-Fluka-Supelco
Acros Organics (also via Fisher)
Lancaster
(also via VWR)
EMD
(Merck, also via VWR)
Mallinckrodt
Laboratory Chemicals
Macalaster-Bicknell
(New Haven based, Yale discounts)
VWR
Fisher
Scientific (merged with Thermo)
Spectrum
Chemical
Cole-Parmer
Daigger
Thomas
Scientific
Ward's Natural
Science (Earth Science, forceps)
SKS Science (labware, containers)
Microscopes camera adapters:
Microscope Store
Microsope USA
Zarf Enterprises
Science Fair and Other stuff:
Don't forget to check out the Peabody Museum Store
Steve Spangler Science
Edmund Scientific's
Ward's Natural
Science (Earth Science)
General:
McMaster-Carr
Grainger
MSC Corp
Digi-Key
(electronic components)
Ohmite
(resistors)
Darby
Dental (drill supplies)
Benco Dental
Small
Parts
see also: Architecture--Lab
Material and Supply Page (and links within)
Other
Stable Isotope Labs and Resources:
Isogeochem (website--labs, shortcourses,
suppliers, etc.)
Isogeochem
(archives)
Isogeochem Wiki
EPA Data analysis and models for stable isotopes ("awesome", Ed)
Water
Isotopes .org
Wikipedia (stable
isotopes)
US Geological
Survey, Resources on Isotopes
USGS
Resources on Isotopes, periodic table
Links
for Mineralogists (teaching>stable isotopes)
Links for
Mineralogists-Home page (hosted by U. of Würzburg)
Standard materials and
info (above)
NIOZ Tex86 protocol (PDF file--ok, not stable isotope based)
Geochemisty by W.M White (text book, stable isotope chapter)
Boggy's Links (geologylinks.com, includes list of Geology Depts)
Cornell's Geochemisty on the World Wide Web
Nitrate isolation (USGS, silver nitrate method)
Yale's Mouse
Metabolic
Phenotyping Center
including it's
Stable Isotope Sub-core
see also, Software/modeling/etc., below
University
of
Vermont,
Geology
UVM
Stable Isotope Lab
UC
Davis Stable Isotope Labs
UC Irvine AMS
facility
CalTech (Eiler)
Arizona State
University
Colorado
Plateau Stable Isotope
Laboratory
Cornell
University Stable Isotope Center
MBL
Stable Isotope
Laboratory (Woods Hole)
SIRFER: Stable
Isotope Ratio Facility for
Evironmental Research (Utah, Ehleringer, short courses)
Duke's
DEVIL
Dartmouth
(Earth Science Facilities)
UMass
Geosciences (Amherst)
University of Michigan
Penn
State (Kate Freeman)
Indiana
University, Dept. of Geological Sciences: Biogeochemistry (Sulfur;
Zinc;
n-alkane stds, Arndt Schimmelmann)
Isotope
Geochemistry at the University of Texas at Austin (E)
Texas
A&M, College Station, G&G (plus list of other labs)
Reston
Stable Isotope Laboratory, USGS (Ty Coplen)
USGS-Denver
(Bob Rye, Craig Johnson--13C or 18O contacts)
University
of Arkansas, UASIL
Washington
State University, Stable Isotope Core
University
of Washington, Isolab
University
of Washington, Oceanography SIL
Lehigh
University
Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution (Marilyn Fogel)
The
University of Alabama
The University of Georgia, Institute of Ecology
The University of Georgia, Dept. of Geology
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Christopher Martens/Stephen Meyers)
University
of Florida
University of
Illinois, Dept. of Geology
Illinois
State Geological Survey, Isotope Geochemistry Section
University
of Arizona, Environmental Isotope Laboratory
University
of Arizona, Accelorator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
Lousianna State University, Dept. of Geology & Geophysics
Australian
National University, Stable Isotope Facility (Graham Farquhar)
University
of Toronto, Canada, Stable Isotope Lab
University
of Toronto, Canada, Geobiology (sulfur)
Saskatchewan
Isotope Laboratory (snow tunnels, software:Geodate)
GG
Hatch
Isotope Labs (U. of Ottawa)
University
of Calgary Isotope Science Laboratory
University of
Edinburgh, stable isotope (micro mill)
University
of Newcastle upon Tyne, Civil Engineering and Geosciences
NERC
Isotope Geosciencs Lab (UK)
University
of Waterloo, GNIP Maps
IsoLab
(Max Planck, Willi Brand)
IAEA
Isotope Hydrology Laboratory
Queen's
University, Belfast (W. Meier-Augustein, forensics)
Forensic
Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry Network
Commercial (check Isogeochem website
too):
Geochemistry.Com,
Laboratories
Iso-Analytical
(UK)
GeoChron
Laboratories (US, 14C, stable, etc.)
Metabolic Solutions
(US, medical research)
ZyMax Stable Isotope Laboratory (US)
Intertek
(international, methane)
iso-trace
(New
Zealand)
14C Laboratories
(tracers/dating)--Other Isotopes and Geochemistry--random bits:
Geochron
Sandia
National Labs (geochemistry facilities)
MIT Beams Labs (14C
tracer)
Radiocarbon.org
(list of labs, etc.)
Arizona Accelerator Mass Spectometry Laboratory
PRIME (Purdue Rare Isotope Measurement Laboratory)
other laboratories/techniques not listed here, including ICP-MS
facilities, secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS, ion beam, etc.), and
other more specialized techniques for rare but still exciting isotopes.
Yale Facilities
and Services
This is not a complete list--searching the
main Yale web site or your
departmental site is recommended. Yale's main website
now lists academic
research centers and health and medicine
research. Please check with the
individual
facilities to see if they are open to users outside the supporting
department(s) or laboratories.
Yale Dept of
Geology and Geophysics Facilities
XRD (X-ray diffraction)
Scanning Electron Microscope
Yale
Electron Microprobe Laboratory (G&G)
Yale
Biomaterials Working Group (and links within)
Yale
Department of Chemistry Facilities
Glassblowing (classes available)
Instrumentation Center (LC-MS, GC-MS, NMR, X-ray, etc.)
Chemistry Stockroom
Machine shop (classes available)
Yale Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, resources
Yale
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Centers and
Programs, including:
Center for
Biodiversity and Conservation Science
Tropical Resources
Institute (PRORENA project)
Analytical laboratory capabilities contact: Dr. Helmut Ernstberger
Yale Dept. of Molecular
Biophysics and Biochemistry research
Yale Center for
Structural Biology (CSB Core members, X-ray)
Yale University Center for Genomics & Proteomics (high throughput screening, nanospray-MS-MS via Q-Tof)
Yale Molecular, Cellular and
Developmental Biology facilities
YIBS
Research Centers--including:
Earth Systems
Center for
Stable Isotopic Studies (you're here)
Center for Earth
Observation
EcoSave:
Molecular Systematics and Conservation Genetics...
(DNA Analysis
on Science Hill)
W.M.
Keck Foundation Biotechnology Resource Center
(DNA and Protein Sequencing, Electrospray and NanoSpray MS)
Mouse Metabolic
Phenotyping Center including Stable Isotope Sub-core
Yale
Cancer Center, Shared Resources (Research)
Yale
School of Medicine Instrument Repair and Design Shop
Yale
Engineering (centers/facilities):
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Applied
Physics
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Gibbs
Machine Shop (2-6300)
Architecture--Lab
Material and Supply Page (and links within)
Yale
School
of Medicine Core Services (and links within)
Yale
Department of Cell Biology CINEMA Laboratory (microscopy)
Yale
School of Medicine Magnetic Resonance Research Center
Peabody Museum
(research)
Software/models/data mining/etc.:
Yale:
G&G
computing support page (access to ...yale/software)
Yale ITS
Yale ITS software page
Center for Biodiversity
Conservation and Science (software)
Yale Purchasing
School of
Forestry and Environmental Studies, resources
Center for
Earth Observation
Yale University
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Department of Statistics (statlab)
Yale Mathmatics Department
(mathlinks--Applied, Computational, etc.)
Computer Science (computer science)
Donoghue Lab (phylodiversity)
Raymond lab (Loadrunner, utility to automate USGS Loadtest)
Rye/Bolton lab (modeling fluid flow in rocks, etc.)
Crustal Fluid home page
see also, Stable Isotope resources, above.
other:
GeoWall (looks cool)
Mann (Penn
State) Holocene tools
CourseWare (simulators)
OpenOffice
Google Earth (download program, high
speed connection needed)
Google Moon
Google Mars
Wiki--make your own (our manual is
now online)
other wiki sites/info: SourceForge, Wikipedia
"Free" compilers/emulators/os/tools:
FreeDos
Linux info
FreeBSD
e-Emulators
Digital Mars (not the
planet--C++ and D compilers)
Free Byte guide to free
progamming
Perl
theFreeCountry programming tools
the R project (statistical
programming--it comes after S)
Nvu (webpage authoring)
SourceForge
Programs and Funding
Global Climate and Energy Project
nsf (National Science Foundation, US)
NIH (National Institutes of Health)
DOE (Department of Energy)
in house (Yale) programs:
Donnelly Environmental Fellows (YIBS)
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