Bloomsbury Environmental Isotope Facility

The Bloomsbury Environmental Isotope Facility (BEIF) houses two continuous-flow (Thermo Fisher Scientific Delta V) isotope ratio mass spectrometers with a number of peripheral devices for measuring δ²H, δ¹³C, δ¹⁵N, δ¹⁸O, and  δ³⁴S in a variety of solids, and a Nu Perspective IS with NuCarb device for clumped isotope measurements in carbonates.

What we do

We analyse materials for research projects (including Masters and Ph.D. projects) as well as materials received from colleagues external to UCL. The peripheral instruments in the BEIF laboratory allows us to analyse carbonates (sediments, speleothem, foraminifera, ostracods, corals, fish otoliths, belemnites...), bulk organic matter as well as samples from cave deposits, archaeological materials (bone, teeth, hair & plants) and rocks.