Technical Services

Introduction

A comprehensive range of facilities is available to support teaching and research. Our Department has a tradition of collaboration and sharing which has enabled both well supported community facilities and sharing of resources located in group research and teaching areas. This area of our web site documents our facilities including some of the commonly shared instructional and research equipment.

Instrumentation

Jan 2012.

The UGI-400 NMR spectrometer located in Science A 219 will be temporarily decommissioned due to disruptions from heavy construction in surrounding area. We hope to relocate the NMR system to a new area in the future. Stay tuned for details.

 GC-MSD for Research: The Agilent GC-MSD (5975) currently located in Science A 219 has been shutdown and will be relocated in the near future. Exact location remains to be determined. Details will be released when known.

 GC-MSD for Teaching: The Agilent GC-MSD (5973) currently located in Science A 219 has been shutdown and will be temporarily packed and stored until heavy construction in surrounding area subsides. Please contact Michelle Forgeron (mamforge@ucalgary.ca or 403.801.1226) if you have concerns regarding this decision.

The Chemistry Instrumentation Facility houses NMR, EPR and mass spectrometers, infrared and UV/visible spectrophotometers and other characterization instruments. A listing of additional research and teaching equipment available for collaborative studies is located here.

X-ray Crystallography

The Crystallography Structure Service (SB 328) operates Bruker-Nonius KappaCCD and Molecular Structure Corporation diffractometers.

Electronics Shop

The Chemistry Electronics Shop (SA 042) has facilities for diagnosis and repair of all types of chemical instrumentation and computing equipment.

Computing

Extensive and varied computing is available in the Department: ranging from high performance clusters used for computational chemistry through dedicated instrumentation computers to shared printing and scanning facilities.

Glass Shop

The Chemistry Glass Shop (SA 048) provides consultation, design, fabrication and repair of laboratory apparatus. Services are available to the University of Calgary campus.

Science Workshop

The Science Workshop (SA 007) provides state-of-the-art technical support for teaching and research. hey have an excellent excellent complement of machine tools providing complete machine shop services and a well-outfitted welding shop.

Stores

Chemistry Stores (SB 050) provides chemicals, laboratory apparatus, stationery, as well as shipping and receiving services to the department.

Printing

Chemistry Shared Printing (SB 048 and SA 105)

The Department provides Print (Colour and Black & White), Photocopy, Fax and Scan resources to department members using Project Imagine Xerox Workcentres and Xerox Network Accounting

Smart- Board (SB 324)