Facilities

We are committed to sharing our facilities and associated expertise with external academic and industrial collaborators. To discuss your requirements, please contact the staff listed on the pages below.

Facility title	Overview
Chemical analysis	Facilities for chemical analysis of water and solid extractions.
Cohen Geochemistry Laboratory	An integrated laboratory suite designed and built for geochemical research in all areas of environmental geosciences.
Diamond Leeds SAXS Facility	The tailored instrument for high-resolving X-ray scattering experiments offers open access to Leeds and other UK-users around the year for the nanostructural fine-analysis of complex soft matter, polymers, bio-materials and advanced solid materials.
Electron Microscopy Facility	Leading UK facility for imaging and microanalysis of solid materials at the micron scale.
Environmental Room	A walk in environmental room, which provides controlled temperature, lighting and humidity.
Equipment for field monitoring of environmental conditions	We have a range of equipment for field monitoring of environmental conditions, especially the weather, river hydraulics, soil.
Experimental Petrology Laboratory	We have equipment to study processes such as mineral replacement, kinetics of mineral reactions, melt infiltration, metasomatism including propagation of chemical reactive fronts.
Fluid Inclusion Laser Ablation ICP-MS Laboratory	This laboratory is set up for the analysis of fluid inclusions in minerals.
General geography laboratory facilities	The laboratories have an extensive range of equipment to facilitate the preparation and analysis of water, soil and sediment samples.
Geophysical Equipment	Our geophysical field equipment can be applied to many subsurface imaging challenges.
Haldrup F-55 Grass Harvester	The Haldrup F-55 is a precision plot grass harvester.
Ice Nucleation Laboratory	We have a range of instruments and facilities focused on measuring properties of atmospheric aerosol both in the laboratory and the field.
IcePod	Part of the Ice Nucleation Laboratory
Inductively Coupled Plasma Analysis	Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) and Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES) are analytical techniques used to determine elemental concentrations in liquid samples.
Instrument Workshop	The Instrument Workshop provides extensive Mechanical Engineering support for the School of Earth & Environment / Faculty of Environment and other faculties across the University. We design, construct and maintain equipment for use in research and teaching.
Palaeontology Laboratory	This lab is used for macrofossil and microfossil analysis and imaging.
Petrophysics Laboratory	This laboratory focuses on the physical properties of rocks, with apparatus for measuring the porosity and permeability of rocks and the measurement of frequency dependent permeability and streaming potential coefficient.
Plant Growth Chambers	We have a range of plant growth chambers.
Remote sensing vehicle emissions	Our vehicle emission measurement system senses the tailpipe emissions of vehicles as they drive-through a monitoring site. The instrument scans the exhaust plume trailing a vehicle.
Rock Mechanics, Engineering Geology and Geotechnical (RMEGG) Laboratories	Used for a wide range of rock and soil testing activities, collecting, processing, testing and interpreting data related to the geotechnical, mining and petroleum sectors around the world.
School of Food Science and Nutrition	An <a href="http://environment.leeds.ac.uk/food-nutrition-research-innovation/doc/research-facilities">overview of the facilities</a> available within the School of Food Science and Nutrition.
Sorby Environmental Fluid Dynamics Laboratory	Our facilities enable a wide interdisciplinary community to experiment upon a range of simulated natural processes.
Specialist laboratories	We have several specialist laboratories dedicated to microscopy, physical soil analysis and tree ring analysis
Thermal Ionisation Mass Spectrometry Laboratory	We primarily offer Sr-Nd-Pb isotope analyses in a wide range of geological and environmental materials.
Thin Section Workshop / Rock Polishing Laboratory	Preparation of high quality optical and polished thin sections, polished blocks, doubly polished wafers, fluid inclusion wafers, grain mounts etc.
Topographical surveying equipment	We have specialist equipment for topographic surveying, including a Reigl VZ-1000 terrestrial laser scanner and a Leica Viva dGPS-TS system.
Virtuocity	Virtuocity is a unique programme for city simulation and co-design. It provides an immersive, “human in the loop”, simulation and visualisation facility - “powered” by academic models and industry software, and delivered by an interdisciplinary team of academics with decades of expertise between them.
Wolfson Multiphase Flow Laboratory	We have state-of-the-art facilities for investigating the multi-phase flow properties of fault rocks for predicting the flow of petroleum in the subsurface and measuring the relative permeability, capillary pressure and wettability of fault rocks within petroleum reservoirs.
X-ray Diffraction and X-ray Fluorescence (XRD/XRF)	Our XRD and XRF facilities include a preparation laboratory and an instrument laboratory. Analysis is available on a Bruker D8 XRD, a Philips XRD and a portable XRF.