Consultation regarding different aspects of electron microscope projects is also offered. This suite houses a Philips transmission E.M. and a Nanolab 2000 Scanning E.M. supported by ultramicrotomes, coating unit, sputter coater, and critical point dryer. Recently an ISG image analysis system, based on a silicon graphics IRIS workstation, has been installed. The unit is staffed by a qualified technician and is available to users inside and outside the University. The light and electron microscope units are supported by a photographic unit which includes a new Ilford 2150 RC processor.
Staff are available to provide training and support as needed.
The DUSR facility includes three radiochemical laboratory, one chemical laboratory and two sample handling and counting rooms in addition to the reactor room itself. Some short half-life radioisotopes are also produced from time to time. Samples of atmospheric, biochemical, biological, environmental, forensic, geological, metallurgical, nutritional, oceanographic and other origins are analyzed for trace elements for both academic research and industrial usage. This facility if one of only two strong centres of academic analytical chemistry in Canada. It functions primarily as a focus for projects involving trace chemical analysis, both nationally and internationally, and interacts extensively with industrial and environmental concerns in the identification and quantification of various materials.