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Glasgow Molecular Organic Geochemistry Laboratory (G-MOL)
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The wet chemistry laboratory
The laboratory employs the latest technology, to facilitate the extraction of lipid biomarkers and their separation into compound class fractions; with maximum, speed, reproducibility and yields.
The gas chromatography clean laboratory
The GC lab is fitted to house several Shimadzu GC-FID 2010s and a Shimdazu GC-MS-QP2010 Plus. GC-FID (Gas chromatography - Flame Ionisation Detection) is used to quantify the abundances of organic compounds. We have one Shimadzu GC-FID 2010 (with AOC-20i,20s autosampler) dedicated to lipid biomarker analyses and one Shimadzu GC-FID 2010 (with cold trap injector) dedicated for analyses of organic gases and volatile compounds.
Gas chromatography – mass spectrometry (GC-MS) is used, when required, to confirm compound identities (in Electron Ionisation mode) and/or to increase sensitivity of analyses for certain compounds (in Chemical Ionistaion mode.) Our Shimdazu GC-MS-QP2010 Plus can operate in EI or CI (with ammonia) and is equipped with an autosampler.
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People in the Glasgow Molecular Organic Geochemistry Laboratory (G-MOL)
Post-doctoral:
Dr Jaime Toney NERC PDRA, project: "A Biomarker Goldmine in Wilkes Land, Antarctica: nuggets from the Eocene Greenhouse (BIGWIG). NERC UK-IODP."
Ph.D.s:
 Heiko Moossen SAGES PhD student, project: "Palaeoclimate reconstructions from Arctic and Nordic shelf seas: development and application of multiple proxies."
 Paula Sankelo Kone Foundation (Finland) PhD student, project: "Mapping inputs of plant biomarkers to glacial ice archives: A novel tool for paleoclimatology."
 Huiling Sun China Scholarship Council funded visiting PhD student (PR China), project: "Biomarker records of environmental change from lake Guan Shan in the monsoon marginal zone in northwest China."
Jill McColl NERC PhD Student: "Climate variability of the last 1000 years in the NW Pacific: high resolution, multi-biomarker records from lake and ocean sediments."
Technician:
Christopher Gallagher G-MOL Technician.
Current Undergraduate Bursary and Final year project students:
Anine Hallander NERC-UK-IODP (2011) Bursary Student, project: "Sterol biomarkers in Adelie Drift sediments, Wilkes Land, Antarctica "
William Vorley Final year project student: "Lions Mane (Cyanea capilla) and Moon
Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) Biomarker Assay."
Daniella Peel Final year project student: "Transport and deposition of bacterial hopane
biomarkers in Siberian fluvial and lacustrine settings."
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