Laboratories at IGN

IGN has several laboratories. They are used for teaching and research for students on all levels: bachelor, master and PhD students and other scientific staff. Some of the laboratories also perform analyses for clients outside the department. 

The laboratories and instruments are used within the fields of minerals, rocks and isotopes; earth, water, sedimentology and palaeontology, biomass, genetics and diversity, as well as biochemistry.

Biogeochemistry laboratory

The laboratory is running solid (biomaterial, soil), liquid and gaseous samples.

Biomass science and technology

The Bioresource Chemistry and Technology research group has four main types of facilities for biomass characterisation and processing: facilities for preparing and processing biomass, for chromatography, for mechanical properties, and for microscopy and spectroscopy.

DNA laboratory - Genetics and diversity

The DNA laboratory houses state of the art equipment for high quality DNA and RNA isolation and sample processing for massive parallel sequencing for research in forest genetics and ecology.

DNA laboratory - Genetics and diversity

Chemical and physical analyses in soil, sediments, water, vegetation, and air

IGN houses several laboratories undertaking chemical and physical analyses in soil, sediments, water, vegetation and air.

IRMS, 15N, 13C, 18O

Electron Microprobe Laboratory

The lab carries out non-destructive chemical analysis and imaging of solid materials on a μm scale using a focused electron beam. 

Gamma Dating Centre Copenhagen

The Gamma Dating Centre Copenhagen (GDC) is primarily dealing with establishment of chronology in fine-grained sediments using the radioactive isotopes Pb-210 and Cs-137.

Geomicrobiology & Biogeochemistry

Researchers in the fields of geomicrobiology and aqueous biogeochemistry, but also in microbial ecology, environmental microbiology, mineralogy, paleoclimate studies and related.

LA-ICP-MS laboratory

The laser ablation laboratory features a Teledyne Analyte Excite 193 nm ArF laser ablation (LA) system coupled to an Agilent 7900 quadrupole inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS).

LA-ICP-MS laboratory

Paleo-plant physiology Laboratory

In the paleo-plant physiological laboratory we investigate how oxygen and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may have influenced the physiology of past plants and insects, their uptake of nutrient salts and their carbon-isotope composition.

Radiogenic and non-traditional stable isotope geochemistry laboratory

The radiogenic isotope branch of The Danish Center for Isotope Geology (DCIG) is centered around the “Radiogenic and non-traditional stable isotope geochemistry laboratory”.

Sediment-, aqueous-geochemistry

We work with sediment and sedimentary rock geochemistry, aqueous-geochemistry, and geomicrobiology.

Sediment-, aqueous-geochemistry and geomicrobiology

Stable Isotope laboratory (only in Danish)

The mycology laboratory

The mycology lab is a key infrastructure in relation to isolation and cultivation of fungi for diagnostic purposes or experiments.

The zoology laboratory

The zoology laboratory has workspace for 4 people and is a typical terrestrial-ecology laboratory for identification and sorting of invertebrates.

X-ray laboratory

This laboratory comprises instruments relevant for mineralogical, geochemical, and petrographic analysis of rocks from decimeter to micrometer scale.