Facilities

This project, unique in its scope and the data that it has produced, is a collaborative effort led by Dr. Vladimir Aizen, University of Idaho. Major data analysis, interpretation, and simulation has occurred at the University of Idaho. The UofI has up-to-date laboratories and analytical equipment for scientific analysis and data simulation. The UofI stable isotope laboratory is equipped with two new (Delta PLUS and Delta PLUS XL) mass spectrometers for continuing flow oxygen and hydrogen analysis, a new ice-core freezer for up to 20 tons of ice-core storage and maintenance, ice-core processing laboratory that includes automated ice-core melting system, laser dust particle counter and the snow/ice stratigraphy tools. The major ions, aerosols, and trace elements are processed and analyzed in the laboratories, of University of Maine (USA). The radionuclide analysis occurs at the Paul Scherer Technological Institute in Zurich (Switzerland); the carbon dioxide, and methane gases are analyzed in the Laboratory of University Heidelberg (Germany) and the Laboratory of Glaciology in Grenoble (France); the microbiological research is performed at the Tokyo University laboratories (Japan).

Cooperation

Research collaborators are: University of Maine (USA), Kyoto University and Nagoya Atmospheric Research Institute (Japan), Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement (France), Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Institut fuer Umweltphysik Universitaet Heidelberg (Germany), Paul Scherrer Technological Institute (Switzerland), Cold and Arid Environmental Engineering Research Institute and Tibetan Research Institute (China), Tomsk State University (Russia), Kyrgyz Institute of Water Problems and Hydropower (Kyrgyzstan), Tajik National Academy of Sciences (Tajikistan).

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Contact

Vladimir Aizen
Department of Geography
College of Science
P.O. Box 443025
Moscow, Idaho 83844-3025 U.S.A.

Tel: (208) 885-5888
Fax: (208) 885-5724
aizen@uidaho.edu