Numerous state-of-the-art facilities and laboratories are available within the Faculty of Science. Modern analytical and field facilities and instrumentation for a wide range of environmental research, assessment and monitoring include:

• inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometer (ICP-MS);
• high-precision thermal ionization and stable isotope mass spectrometers;
• scanning electron microscope;
• wave-length and energy dispersive electron microprobe with image analysis facility;
• X-ray diffractometer;
• X-ray fluorescence spectrometer;
• atomic absorption spectrophotometer;
• gas chromatographs;
• high performance liquid chromatographs;
• ion chromatographs;
• gas chromatograph/mass spectrometers;
• tandem (organic) mass spectrometers;
• trace metal electroanalytical analyzers;
• nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers;
• trace gas analyzer;
• sedigraph;
• geographic information system and workstation;
• well log database and stratigraphic/seismic modelling software packages;
• deep-tow seismic profiler;
• multi-channel acoustic imaging systems, acoustic image processing facilities, acoustic calibration facilities;
• equipment for coupled stress-flow and transport experiments in fractured rock flow system studies.

Other specialized facilities for biological, microbiological, biochemical, oceanographic, and numerical studies are described in individual Departmental brochures.