Sawyer Environmental Chemistry Research Lab

 

About SECRL

The Sawyer Environmental Chemistry Research Laboratory employs advanced analytical techniques and state of the art instrumentation to perform a variety of analyses. The SECRL strives to provide high quality data by adhering to appropriate quality assurance guidelines and quality control procedures and by participating in inter-laboratory comparison performance evaluation studies. Laboratory samples range widely from marine and lake sediments to biological tissue to natural waters.

Photos

Below are a collection of photos taken from the Sawyer Environmental Chemistry Research Laboratory.

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Preparing the sediment corer for sampling - Mud Pond	Sediment coring on Little Long Pond
Microwave sample digestion	Suzhong Tian preparing samples for colorimetric phosphorus analysis
Dianne Kopec & Tiffany Wilson analyzing samples for mercury	Karen Merritt & Dr. Aria Amirbahman sampling Penobscot River sediment porewaters Photo courtesy of C. Schmitt
Central Laboratory Area	Ortho-phosphate analysis
Tiffany Wilson and Dr. Steve Norton sectioning sediment core	Ken Hoyt extracts samples from a Maine sea urchin
Catherine Wakely loads her project samples for metals analysis	Colorimetric phosphorus analysis
Lynel Winters prepares her marine samples for mercury analysis	Field sampling on the Narraguagus River