Briggs' dry lab in the Yale Dept. of Geology and Geophysics has a Leica MZ16 dissecting microscope with Optronics camera attachment; a Leica MZ6 with a heavy base, extension arm and drawing tube, and a Leica DM 2500P petrographic microscope; Nikon Coolpix 5400 and Fuji Finepix S9100 digital cameras with dedicated Dell desktop; fume hood for acid preparation of samples. His wet lab has facilities for organic sample preparation and storage, including fume hoods and freezers. He has access to Py-GC-MS and spectroscopic techniques through established collaborations with Roger Summons' lab at MIT and George Cody and Neal Gupta at the Carnegie Institution. The Dept. provides facilities for rock cutting and slabbing; Philips XL 30 environmental scanning electron microscope with EDX; Fully automated electron microprobe; Scintag X-Ray diffractometer, computer automated. Briggs has full access to the facilities of the Invertebrate Paleontology Division of the Yale Peabody Museum as Curator in Charge of IP.