Welcome
For three decades, faculty, staff, and students of the University of Vermont cosmogenic nuclide sample processing laboratory have worked closely with engineers and machinists at the University’s IMF Labs to design and build many items that make sample processing easier, more consistent, and more efficient. Together we have envisioned, tested, refined, and produced equipment for use in our isotope and geochemistry clean labs.
Beginning in 2018, we were funded by the US National Science Foundation (grant NSF-EAR-1735676) to serve as a community laboratory dedicated to training visitors from around the world and working on methodological developments to share with other cosmogenic nuclide laboratories. As part of that mission, we are making these purpose-built laboratory items widely available for colleagues at other institutions who have similar facilities and use similar methods. We are happy to now be able to share these items and their designs with the broader science community in cooperation with University of Vermont’s IMF Labs.
Here, we provide photographs, descriptions, and plans for these inventions. Because we have been continuously supported as a research and research training facility by US National Science Foundation, we provide CAD renderings of these pieces free of charge under a creative commons license for non-commercial use. The University of Vermont IMF Labs can make and sell these pieces to academic institutions for research purposes for the cost of labor and materials.
© The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College. Created with government support under [NSF-EAR-1735676] awarded by the NSF.
The designs are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (CC-BY-NC). Anyone is welcome to use the designs for any non-commercial purpose. The designs are provided as-is with no express or implied warranty. For information on commercial use, please contact Paul Bierman, pbierman@uvm.edu.