Aqueous Biogeochemistry Laboratory
The Aqueous Biogeochemistry Laboratory is housed in Haenicke Hall, a modern facility built in 1997 integrating geoscience, biology and chemistry research laboratories to promote active cross-disciplinary research and collaboration. The lab is supervised by Dr. Carla Koretsky, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Western Michigan University.
Recent Projects
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Influence of Road Salt Deicers on the Chemistry of Michigan Lakes, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, 9/1/2015-8/31/17
- Development of surface complexation models for Cr (VI) adsorption on soils, sediments, and model mixtures of kaolinite, montmorillonite, g-alumina, hydrous manganese and ferric oxides, and goethite, DOE, Federal, 9/1/10-8/31/12
Major Instrumentation
- Balances
- Barnsted Water Purification System
- Centrifuges
- Coy Anaerobic Chamber
- Dionex Ion Choromatograph
- Drying oven
- Flow-through reactors with syringe pumps
- Freezers and T-controlled refrigerator
- Helios Gamma UV/Vis Spectrophotomer
- LabConco Benchtop Freeze Dryer
- Perkin Elmer Optima 2100DV Inductively-Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer
- pH, conductivity and ion selective electrodes and meters
- Pore water diffusion equilibrators (peepers)
- Pore water squeezer
- QuantaChrome Nova 2200 Particle Surface Area Analyzer
- Shakers/rotators
- Specialized coring devices (e.g., wedge and reactor type)
- SRI FID Gas Chromatograph