23 March 2022
Daniel James, PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, visited BOSCORF this week with a collection of speleothem samples. Together with Rebecca Garnett, BOSCORF’s X-ray imaging scanner operator, he collected high-resolution radiograph and laminograph images on 15 speleothem slab samples.
Speleothems—stalagmites and stalactites—grow in caves and can record climatic conditions, such as the amount of rainfall. Because cave systems are in contact with the outside... |
23 February 2022
This week the filming was on location for a new series of online courses provided collaboratively by BOSCORF and National Environmental Isotope Facility. At a scenic coastal location in southwest Scotland the filming of the BOSCORF course commenced.
For an upcoming series of online courses on the Geo-Biosciences Advanced E-Learning Academy (in short GAEA platform) several video clips were filmed. The course on argon-argon dating, for example, will launch spring 2022, with further courses... |
15 June 2021
This week our new Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) was installed. This machine replaces an older model that had limited capabilities. Our new Hitachi TM4000 SEM, in contrast, can magnify samples 100,000 times, does 3D mapping of surfaces, has an option for cathodoluminescence imaging, and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. In short: a very fancy microscope that BOSCORF makes available to the scientific community.
About the installation of the new SEM, curator of BOSCORF Dr... |
25 March 2021
Today, we welcomed a brand new GEOTEK ScoutXcan to our research facility. This new X-ray imaging scanner is especially designed to take two-dimensional and pseudo-three-dimensional laminography images of core samples.
This technique is similar to the more familiar full-3D CAT scanning method and is based on sending highly energetic X-rays through a sample, to identify density contrasts. BOSCORF’s ScoutXcan is the second instrument in the UK fully dedicated to science and research... |