Research Facilities

John V. Croul Hall Croul Hall is a 68,000 square foot, state-of-the-art research facility. It was built through a successful private-public partnership, and opened in 2003. Croul Hall houses the Department of Earth System Science, including faculty and staff offices, laboratories, conference rooms, and classrooms. Many thanks to John V. and Kingsley Croul for their generous donation, which made this building possible.
W. M. Keck Carbon Cycle Mass Spectrometer The Keck Carbon Cycle Accelerator Mass Spectrometer facility (CCAMS) specializes in using radiocarbon as a tracer of the global carbon cycle. The facility analyzes ¹⁴C in carbon from natural waters, soils, sediments, and the atmosphere.
Stable Isotope Facility The laboratory's goal is to make high precision isotopic measurements on very small amounts of important atmospheric trace gases (including methane, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide). Facilities are also available for analysis of carbon and oxygen isotopes in carbonates.
High Resolution Mass Spectrometer This facility is a high resolution triple-sector mass spectrometer. It is used for the identification and quantification of hydrocarbons and halocarbon trace gases in atmospheric samples, and air extracted from polar firn and ice cores.
Earth System Modeling System The newest facility in ESS is a supercomputer devoted to modeling land, atmosphere and ocean interactions involved in the Earth's climate system.
Instrumentation Development Facility This facility provides electronic engineering and instrumentation support. The facility assists in the maintenance, development, and field deployment of analytical instrumentation. Contact info: mccormic@uci.edu, 949-824-0045, Croul Hall 2103.
Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics This is a multi-campus, University of California research institute. The IGPP branch at UC Irvine helps to support research facilities, visiting scientists, seminar speakers, workshops, and graduate research projects.