Integrated Labs for Earth and Planetary Sciences (ILEPS)

Northwestern University recently renovated a lab facility occupying 5,000 square feet, for the analytical needs of Professors Blair, Hurtgen, Jacobsen, Jacobson, McInerney, and Sageman, their postdoctoral researchers and students. Named for the interdisciplinary work it will foster, the Integrated Labs for Earth and Planetary Sciences (ILEPS) include state-of-the-art laboratories for sedimentary geochemistry, aqueous geochemistry, organic geochemistry, stable isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS), radiogenic isotope geochemistry (TIMS), and high-pressure high-temperature mineral physics, along with sleek new rock and core preparation rooms. Also used by EPS researchers is the Carbon Biogeochemistry Laboratory. This is located nearby in the Technical Institute.

Integrated Labs for EPS

Photo by Anthony (Tony) May, www.mayphoto.com

Graduate student Maya Gomes carries the Earth in her hands during the EPS New Year celebration.
Young Ji Joo (left) and Darcy Li (right) stand with Professor Emeritus Abraham Lerman. The three worked on several projects together involving global biogeochemistry, particularly the coupling of N and Si with C cycles.
Graduate student John Lazarz centering a sample on the X-ray diffraction system in the mineral physics laboratory.
A warehouse of SPREE seismometors
Professor McInerney's Paleobiology class at the Field Museum of Natural History
EARTH 201 students at Natural Bridge State Park in Baraboo, WI
Rosemary Bush holding the part and counterpart (and a scale) of an incredibly well-preserved frog fossil in Ethiopia.
Andrew Jacobson's metal-free clean lab
Brian Kristall chisels a banded iron formation near Marquette, MI.
Greg Lehn collects water samples from a river on the North Slope of Alaska.