Environmental Quality Program Facilities

Atmospheric Sampling

• Custom-built field laboratory at Fort Prospect, Bermuda
• High Volume Total Suspended Particle (TSP) samplers - Tisch Environmental, Inc.
• High Volume PM₁₀ samplers - Tisch Environmental, Inc.
• High Volume PUF samplers for semi-volatile organic compounds - Tisch Environmental, Inc.
• Continuous TSP Monitor - DustScan Sentinel Model 3030 Aerosol Monitor, Rupprecht and Patashnick
• Continuous PM_2.5 Monitor - TEOM (Tapered Element Oscillating Micro-balance), Rupprecht and Patashnick
• Continuous NO_x Monitor - Model 200E Chemiluminescence NOx Analyzer, Teledyne-API
• Continuous SO₂ Monitor - Model 100E UV Fluorescence SO2 Analyzer, Teledyne-API
• Model 8832 Data System Controller - ESC
• Meteorological instrumentation - RM Young
• Aerosol filter sampling (custom built)
• Automatic Wet/Dry Precipitation Samplers - Loda/Aerochem Metrics
• 23 m walk-up sampling tower at Tudor Hill, Bermuda

Environmental Analytical Chemistry 

• Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer - Agilent 6890GC/5973MSD + autosampler
• Accelerated Solvent Extractor - Dionex ASE300
• Soxhlet extraction system
• Solid Phase Micro-Extraction (SPME)
• Solid Phase Extraction (SPE)
• Atomic Absorption/Emission Spectrometer - Perkin Elmer AAnalyst 800 (flame and graphite furnace)
• Ion Chromatograph - Dionex DX100 + autosampler
• Large volume solvent concentrator - Zymark TurboVap II
• Small volume solvent concentrator - Techne Sample Concentrator
• Constant temperature/humidity chamber for conditioning filters for gravimetric determination
• 4- and 5-place analytical balances
• Reverse osmosis and Milli-Q water systems