The Environmental Molecular Science Institute
A54 Fitzpatrick Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
(574) 631-4380

The Environmental Molecular Science Institute laboratory at the University of Notre Dame is located in the Fitzpatrick Hall of Engineering. The facility houses a wide range of state-of-the-art geochemical and microbiological analytical tools that help to determine the molecular-scale processes that control heavy metal and radionuclide mobility in the environment.

Analytical instrumentation includes a PTI Fluorometer (model 814 detector), a Varian Cary 300 Bio UV-Visible Spectrophotometer, a Zeiss Axiostar Plus brightfield/phase-contrast microscope, a Perkin Elmer Optima 2000 ICP-OES for aqueous metal analyses, a LEO EVO-50XVP variable pressure/high humidity scanning electron microscope, a Bruker AXS D8 X-ray diffractometer, and a Waters HPLC with PDA Detector and Fluorescence Detector. Other common-use lab equipment includes the following:

• Yamato SM510 Sterilizer
• Barnstead/Lab-Line floor model incubator/shaker
• Two Fisher ThermoIEC Marathon 21000 benchtop centrifuges
• LABCONCO Freeze Dry System/Freezone 4.5
• Denver Instruments 4-decimal analytical balance
• Denver Instruments 2-decimal balance
• Two Glass-Col rugged rotator shakers
• Fisher (FS140) ultrasonicator
• Fisher IsoTemp oven (model 650G)
• Barnstead/Thermolyne Labquake shaker
• VWR SB301 sympHony pH meter
• Two ThermoOrion model 420 A+ pH meters
• Two Vortex Genie 2 mixers
• Two Corning stirrer/hot plates

The EMSI Lab is approved for radiological work and biosafety level 1 organisms. Two research technicians with experience in chemistry, geology and biological sciences are available in the lab to assist students and faculty.