Environmental Quality Program Facilities

Atmospheric Sampling

  • Custom-built field laboratory at Fort Prospect, Bermuda
  • High Volume Total Suspended Particle (TSP) samplers - Tisch Environmental, Inc.
  • High Volume PM10 samplers - Tisch Environmental, Inc.
  • High Volume PUF samplers for semi-volatile organic compounds - Tisch Environmental, Inc.
  • Continuous TSP Monitor - DustScan Sentinel Model 3030 Aerosol Monitor, Rupprecht and Patashnick
  • Continuous PM2.5 Monitor - TEOM (Tapered Element Oscillating Micro-balance), Rupprecht and Patashnick
  • Continuous NOx Monitor - Model 200E Chemiluminescence NOx Analyzer, Teledyne-API
  • Continuous SO2 Monitor - Model 100E UV Fluorescence SO2 Analyzer, Teledyne-API
  • Model 8832 Data System Controller - ESC
  • Meteorological instrumentation - RM Young
  • Aerosol filter sampling (custom built)
  • Automatic Wet/Dry Precipitation Samplers - Loda/Aerochem Metrics
  • 23 m walk-up sampling tower at Tudor Hill, Bermuda

Environmental Analytical Chemistry 

  • Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer - Agilent 6890GC/5973MSD + autosampler
  • Accelerated Solvent Extractor - Dionex ASE300
  • Soxhlet extraction system
  • Solid Phase Micro-Extraction (SPME)
  • Solid Phase Extraction (SPE)
  • Atomic Absorption/Emission Spectrometer - Perkin Elmer AAnalyst 800 (flame and graphite furnace)
  • Ion Chromatograph - Dionex DX100 + autosampler
  • Large volume solvent concentrator - Zymark TurboVap II
  • Small volume solvent concentrator - Techne Sample Concentrator
  • Constant temperature/humidity chamber for conditioning filters for gravimetric determination
  • 4- and 5-place analytical balances
  • Reverse osmosis and Milli-Q water systems

Project Contact

Dr. Andrew Peters
Director of University Programs & Associate Scientist
Andrew.Peters@bios.edu
Tel: 441-297-1880 x240