The Trace Element Analysis Core Laboratory is a state of the art research laboratory supporting Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School. We use ICP-MS for low-level trace element determinations in environmental and biological matrices and for speciation analysis. We have developed methods for ultra-low level mercury speciation using purge and trap, thermal desorption GC-ICP-MS and arsenic speciation in matrices such as soil solution and biological fluids. Most of our research effort supports Dartmouth's NIEHS Superfund Basic Research Program: Toxic Metals in the Northeast. The Core has two ICP-MS instruments, an Agilent 7500c collision cell quadrupole ICP-MS and a high resolution Element2 ICP-MS and a variety of ‘front-end' sample introduction systems including GC, LC and FFF. The Core also accepts non-Dartmouth samples (that fit our analytical themes) on a fee-per-service basis.
