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FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT

PEARL is fully equipped to conduct most types of paleolimnological (as well as limnological) studies. These facilities include over 20 different sediment corers and samplers (many of which have been developed and built by John Glew), 17 high resolution microscopes, a Hitachi Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), 3 ORTEC Gamma Counting Systems for sediment dating, a biogenic silica laboratory, a carbon nitrogen sulfur analyzer, a NIR spectrophotometer, core storage rooms, and other facilities. In addition, PEARL shares a transmission electron microscope (TEM), and an environmental magnetism facility. Many potential collaborations are possible externally, as well as within Queen's University (e.g., with researchers at Prof. Scott Lamoureux's Enviromental Variability and Extremes Laboratory (EVEX) in Geography and/or Prof. K. Kyser's isotope facilities in Geological Sciences, as well as present day limnological projects with Prof. Shelley Arnott ).  Many external collaborations are also ongoing (e.g., H.J.B. Birks, M.S.V. Douglas, R. Pienitz, P. Leavitt, W. Last, many government agencies, etc).