Our Instrumentation

PCIGR is fully equipped with state-of-the-art instruments, including a variety of mass spectrometers, for all of your isotopic research needs.
PCIGR is fully equipped with state-of-the-art instruments, including a variety of mass spectrometers, for all of your isotopic research needs.
Our team includes a unique mixture of faculty, students and researchers from diverse training and other backgrounds.
Our services ranges from analytical support to the promotion of multidisciplinary research in earth and environmental sciences.
Next Monday from 6:30pm (May 2nd), join Professor Dominique Weis, one of UBC's six newest Killam Professors, as she speaks about her research and its applications. Free event and not one to miss!
...@pcigr https://twitter.com/ubcscience/status/1518993100416368640
Happy Earth Day!
Some of you may have seen we've been having some work done around the department. Well we're thrilled to announce that we can finally unveil our new Walk Through Time with the ...@PMEUBC and @beatymuseum
Congrats to Social #Exposome Cluster members for winning an NFRF grant to develop an "integrated, innovative platform for retrospectively quantifying the prenatal & early childhood exposome using... deciduous teeth"!
@koborlab @ErinDunnScD @kiranksoma @pcigr @TaoThuan https://twitter.com/UBCmedicine/status/1511109610177974272
Who doesn’t love new #instrument day?? Last week we installed the newest member of the PCIGR family, a @NuInstruments TIMS that will replace the Triton. This new Nu TIMS will mainly be used to ...perform high-precision U-Pb #geochronology 🪨⚒️🧪⌛️
https://pcigr.eos.ubc.ca/hello-new-nu-tims/
NEW paper by cluster members Kate Smith @GeoAlchemist and Dominique Weis @pcigr. Check out their study about metal and lead isotopes in particulates encountered by #honeybees in Vancouver. @UBCeoas ...https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154181
Podcast alert again! In early February, our very own Corey Wall sat down to chat #geochronology with @PMEUBC ⏳🪨
Podcast alert! Dominique chats #geochemistry with @PMEUBC 🧪
End of an era! Last week we parted with our Thermo Finnigan Triton TIMS, after almost 20 years of use: 600 wheels and over 12000 #analyses later, Triton has found a new home at @TRIUMFLab with Dr. ...Charles. We will miss you Triton, but your lab home won’t be empty for long...👀
Hot off the press! In-situ Pb #analyses of #plagioclase from the Skaergaard intrusion reveal a link with early Plateau Basalts and highlight the applicability of this technique for source ...determination in mafic intrusions: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0009254122000171?via%3Dihub
Check out this new research paper about bees as biomonitors of environmental contaminants, pathogens, and climate change. Co-authored by cluster member Marta Guarna. ...https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108457