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Adjacent to the Lilly Fong Building is the
Technology building, which houses the department's Electron
Microanalysis and Imaging Laboratory (EMIL) (which houses a JEOL
electron microprobe and scanning electron microscope),
paleoclimate/stable isotope laboratory, sedimentology laboratory,
departmental computer lab, graduate student offices and classrooms.
The department's Hydrology Research Group has a wide variety of
equipment that is available for hydrogeology field activities,
including field water chemistry analysis, well monitoring, groundwater
sampling, measurement of unsaturated zone properties, spring and
streamflow measurements, and surface and borehole geophysics. In
addition, the Department of Geoscience is a member of a research
consortium along with Northern Arizona University, University of
Nevada, Reno and the U.S. Geological Survey at Flagstaff. This
arrangement allows UNLV students and faculty to use equipment at these
institutions.
Personal computers are available in the department and elsewhere on
campus for student use, and macrocomputer support for statistical
analysis is easily accessible through the University and Community
College System of Nevada (UCCSN) Computing Services. In addition, the
department has a number of workstations with statistical and modeling
capabilities.
Other facilities available for graduate use, either in the
department or at the Desert Research Institute (DRI) include:
· atomic absorption spectrophotometer
· mineral separation facilities
· fluid inclusion heating and freezing stage
· stereo-zoom transfer scope
· electronics laboratory
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