The laboratories have a wide range of instruments and offer analyzes and services that support the department's various fields of research and education.
Some laboratories also carry out external assignments for other customers within and outside UiT.
The main areas are:
- Geochemistry - elemental and isotopic composition
- Experimental geochemistry
- Grain distribution
- Qualitative and quantitative analyzes of sediment cores
- Preparations for chemical and structural examinations
- Raman spectroscopy
- Electron microscopy - EDS, WDS, EBSD, cathode luminescence
- Optical petrographic microscopy
- Mineral separation
- Liquid inclusions
Main lab - facilities and instruments
- Thin section lab
- Microscopy lab 1
- Microscopy lab 2
- Weighing room
- X-ray instrument
- Multisensor corelogger
- Core description/logging
- Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
- Grain size distribution
- Core liner saw and preparation
- Freeze dryer
- XRF core scanner
- Freezer room and cold room
- Isotope ratio mass spectrometer lab
- Gas chromatograph
- Cultivation lab
- Fluid- and melt inclusion lab
- Mineral separation lab
Other labs, facilities and instruments:
- Sawing, crushing and milling lab - “Emilbua”
- Seismic lab
- Raman
- Polar MAGIC
- Fløya cold storage facilities
Contact information
For any inquiries, please contact: IGlab@uit.no
The team of engineers:
Ingvild Hald (laboratory manager), Senior engineer
Trine Dahl, Senior engineer
Karina Monsen, Chief engineer
Matteus Lindgren, Chief engineer
Page editor: Mortensen, Kai