Welcome to the ADWG site
The Astromaterials Discipline Working Group (ADWG) is a group of experts from across Canada that provides feedback on the Canadian Space Agency space exploration program, and community recommendations in the area of astromaterials curation and research. It succeeds the meteorites aspect of MIAC (formerly Meteorite and Impacts Advisory Committee).
Graham Wilson
Graham is a professional geologist and mineralogist, with a "day job" in mineral exploration and a long-standing interest in meteorites, which was kindled by interaction with fellow students in England in the late 1970s. He undertakes to identify meteorites and "meteorwrongs" for visitors both physical and virtual, and has classified a number of meteorites, mostly chondrites, from Canada and elsewhere.
University of New Brunswick
Analytical Facilities
Automated ICP-OES spectrometer (major and trace element analyses)
Atomic absorption spectrophotometer (water and rock analysis)
UV-VIS spectrophotometer
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Nos laboratoires / Our laboratories
Optical microscopy
Cathodoluminesence
Micro-XRF
Laser abalation ICP-MS
Image processing and quantification
Université du Québec à Montréal
Laboratoire de Géochimie des isotopes stables (http://www.geotop.ca/isotopesstables/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1&lang=en)
McGill University
Microprobe: JEOL 8900
Atomic force microscope (AFM): Dimension 3100 Atomic Force Microscope
Contact Information (both microprobe and AFM):
Lang Shi
Tel: (514) 398-6774
Fax: (514) 398 - 4680
Email: lang@eps.mcgill.ca
Perkin Elmer Elan 6100 DRCplus ICP-MS system with CETAC ADX-500 Autodiluter system and ASX-510 Auto Sampler
Capability: Analysis of most elements in the Periodic Table in solution down to ppt
Levels
Geological Survey of Canada
The various lab facilities are described on this page: http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/labs/index_e.php. Some labs of interest may include:
Royal Ontario Museum
Analytical facilities- SEM, (gandolfi) powder XRD, (hopefully soon) single crystal XRD, and then any instruments at the U of T. I would like to point out that my strengths are really in links to the synchrotron and to neutron facilities. I can use neutrons for diffraction, H/D substitution etc. Synchrotron- high P mineralogy, micro-XRD etc.
University of Toronto
See http://webcan.geology.utoronto.ca/facilities/analytical-laboratories.
Cosmochemistry Laboratory
Contact Information:
Gopalan Srinivasan
Assistant Professor
Tel: (416) 978-0278
Fax: (416) 978-3938
Email: srini@geology.utoronto.ca
