Facilities and Equipment

Facilities

• Los Angeles Basin Subsurface Data Center, a well log and subsurface data repository with logs on 14,000 wells in southern California, and offshore seismic data
• access to three ocean-going research vessels, support staff, and dockside facilities of the Southern California Marine Institute (SCMI), a consortium of several California State University Campuses, University of Southern California, and Occidental College.

Equipment

• two HP gas chromatographs
• UV spectrophotometer
• Gas source mass spectrometer coupled with Geobench II auto sampler
• CHN elemental analyzer
• vacuum extraction lines for oxygen and carbon isotope studies of carbonate and silicate minerals
• three X-ray diffractometers
• petrographic thin section-making equipment and microdrill system
• fluid inclusion heating/freezing stage
• PIMA portable infrared spectrometer
• marine multi-channel seismic reflection system that includes a digital 24-channel hydrophone streamer and uniboom and sparker energy sources
• total station laser surveying system
• precision GPS receiver and processing software
• high-precision LaCoste-Romberg gravimeter
• land-based seismic reflection/refraction system with weight-drop energy source and 24-channel land seismic data acquisition system
• two 8-passenger 4WD field vehicles
• Linux workstations and SIOSEIS seismic data processing software
• 3D subsurface visualization and mapping software for seismic and well logs (Kingdom Suite; 12-station network license)
• 24-station computer lab (PC and Macintosh) with high-speed internet connection
• digitizer tablet
• 42" HP color inkjet printer/plotter
• GIS software (MapInfo and Arcview)