Core/facility

Yale Analytical and Stable Isotope Center (YASIC)

Brad Erkkila

Primary contact Director
Building:

Environmental Science Center, 21 Sachem Street, room 078

About the core

The Yale Analytical and Stable Isotope Center (YASIC) offers services that include mass spectrometry, ion chromatography, total organic carbon (TOC) analysis, nutrient flow analysis, and microwave digestion.

Instruments

Stable isotope ratio mass spectrometry

  • DeltaQ CN/S: d13C, d15N, d34S, %C, %N, %S, stable isotopes, isotopes, solid organics
  • MAT 253 Kiel: d13C, d18O, stable isotopes, carbonates, bioapatite
  • DeltaXP GasBench: d13C, d18O, water, 13C-DIC, 13C-DOC, stable isotopes
  • DeltaXP TCEA: d18O, d2H, phosphate, water, stable isotopes
  • MAT 253 17O: d17O, carbonates, silicates, BrF5, laser, vacuum line

Elemental abundance

  • Nexion5000 ICP-MS: trace metals, ICP-MS
  • Astoria Nutrient Flow Analyzer: nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, total nitrogen (TN), total phosphate (TP)
  • Eltra CS Analyzer (solids): total carbon, total inorganic carbon, total sulfur
  • Metrohm IC: anions, cations, calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), sodium (Na), potassium (K), sulfate (SO4), iron (Fe)
  • Gamma counter: lead (Pb), cesium (Cs), radon (Rn), lead-210, lead-214
  • Shimadzu TOC analyzer (liquids): total organic carbon (TOC), total inorganic carbon (TIC)
  • DMA80: mercury (Hg), water

Radiocarbon

  • MICADAS AMS: carbon-14, radiocarbon, carbon dating, graphite, Automated Graphitization Equipment (AGE), gas introduction system (GIS)

Available to Yale researchers & external researchers

Core Website

PPMS

Begining November 1, 2022 all YASIC users must have an account in our lab management system, PPMS. Internal users can follow the PPMS Quick-Start Manual and External users can use the External User Profile Creation by User document to set up your respective accounts.

External user profile creation PPMS Quick-Start Manual

Contacts

Shipping address

Yale Analytical and Stable Isotope Center (ESC 078)
21 Sachem Street
New Haven, CT 06511

Physical address

Yale Analytical and Stable Isotope Center
210 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511

Primary contact

Brad Erkkila Director

Staff Scientist

Jonas Karosas

Staff Scientist

Sarah Sheehan
A smiling person with gray beard and glasses

Faculty Director

Peter Raymond, PhD Professor and Senior Associate Dean of Research at the School of the Environment and Professor of Earth and Planetary Science

Rates

InstrumentAnalysisInternalExternal 
nonprofit
Radiocarbon (gas introduction system)Radiocarbon, EA and CO2 gas introduction$72.10$87.55
Radiocarbon (CHS2 - graphite)Radiocarbon, carbonate digestion, automated graphitization$103.00$144.20
Radiocarbon (EA - graphite)Radiocarbon, EA, graphitization$103.00$144.20
15N, 13C - solid organics (EA-CN)Organic, 15N and/or 13C$8.49$10.08
15N, 13C, and 34S - solid organics (EA-CNS)Organic, 15N, 13C, and 34S$14.85$21.22
Carbonate - 13C and 18O (KIEL)Inorganic carbon (carbonates), 13C and 18O$11.14$20.16
Headspace - 13C-CO2 (GasBench Plus)Dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC or DOC), 13C$9.55$14.85
Phosphate - 18O; water 2H and 18O (TCEA)Water, 2H and/or  18O (TCEA)$9.55$19.10
 Organic, 2H and/or 18O (TCEA)$9.55$19.10
 Phosphate 18O (TCEA)$9.55$19.10
DuaI inlet (CO2, N2)Dual inlet (13C, 18O)$7.85$13.79
Triple oxygen - 17OBrF5 line$8.86$8.86
Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS)ICP-MS$107.12/hr*$144.20
Greenhouse gas concentrations (CO2, CH4, N2O)GC-FID (CO2, CH4, N2O)$5.30*$10.66*
Total organic carbon analyzer (water samples)Shimadzu TOC analyzer$3.71*$10.68*
Mercury analysisMercury in water and solids$8.96*$14.71*
Ion chromatography (major anions and some cations)Anions and cations$4.12*$12.43*
Astoria Nutrient Flow AnalyzerFlow analyzer (TN)$5.30*$11.67*
 Flow analyzer (TDN)$5.30*$11.67*
 Flow analyzer (TP)$5.30*$11.67*
 Flow analyzer (TDP)$5.30*$11.67*
 Flow analyzer (PO4)$5.30*$11.67*
 Flow analyzer (NO3)$5.30*$11.67*
 Flow analyzer (NH4)$5.30*$11.67*
Carbon and sulfur analysis - (TC, TS, TIC)Eltra CS Analyzer$2.81*$5.78*
Gamma counter $20.60/day$37.42/day
Titrator (total alkalinity)Total alkalinity, pH, endpoint analysis$1.40$1.85
Professional assistanceLabor (hours)$79.57$90.18

*User provides labor. For full service please contact us.

If you use our facility, please acknowledge us. For example, “Stable isotope measurements were performed at the Yale Analytical and Stable Isotope Center (YASIC), a Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS) research center.”

Orders and invoices

PPMS: https://ppms.us/yale/login/

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Acknowledgment

Please acknowledge YASIC instrumentation use in your research publications and grant applications as follows:

Acknowledgement: This research made use of the Yale Analytical and Stable Isotope Center at Yale University.

A copy of the publication should be sent to Brad Erkkila for record-keeping purposes. This information is important in helping support our mission and to demonstrate the need for equipment and staff expertise.