Last summer, the ESE option finished moving into its newly renovated home in Linde + Robinson Hall. Although we're sad to see some of our colleagues move (albeit just next door), this has a silver lining for us: some of the vacated lab space has now been renovated as a new instrument lab for geochemistry. We have recently moved all of our instrumentation into the new lab, and at over 1000 square feet this more than triples our previous analytical space. What's more, it has big windows! Features of the new lab (for those gear-heads among you) include a dedicated instrumentation electrical busway protected by a massive power conditioner; hard-plumbed gas lines (11 in total) that lead to a tank farm in the hallway, and with 5 separate 'stations' for connecting instruments; a dedicated and fire-walled local area network for all the lab computers, so that they can share data without outside intrusion (we hope); and a dedicated workstation/server running 3 virtual WindowsXP machines that can be accessed remotely for data processing. Stop by and see it sometime.
West end of the lab. Look at all those windows...
East end of the lab.