Tag: 13C

NanoSIMS at the national lab (PNNL-EMSL)

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I just got back to Ithaca last night, after an awesome two weeks out in Richland, Washington at the Pacific Northwest National Lab‘s Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL). I was there to work on a user proposal we submitted and had accepted last year, where we proposed to investigate BC interactions with soil carbon at …

Today, I became a real biogeochemist

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I’m so excited: I just performed my very first ever 13C isotopic pulse-label! We are growing labelled biomass in the CO2-regulated growth chambers for my upcoming field trial, and the corn plants have reached the stage where they will be growing quickly, so it was time. We rigged up a regulator to the tiny 13CO2 …