Amherst Installation

Service engineer Rob Kameny recently spent time at Amherst College, University of Massachusetts, to install a replacement Elemental Analyser and relocate a number of other instruments into the new Beneski Earth Sciences lab for Prof. David S. Jones.

Instrument(s) involved were an HS2022, with IsoEarth-Aqua Microcarbs; these are used for the study of organic/ Inorganic sediments (fish, plants, soil) using isotopic analysis.

The history of geology at Amherst has a long history dated as far as 1825. The College Catalogue of 1826 mentions the courses “Cleaveland’s Mineralogy” and “Geology” that were developed by a new teacher, Edward Hitchcock, Professor of Chemistry and Natural History (1825-64).

Nowadays, you can find a museum right in the centre of the campus building.

The BMNH (Beneski Museum of Natural History) is known for its giant collection of fossils, specializing in ancient mammals including many dinosaurs, and contains the Edward Hitchcock Ichnology Collection, one of the largest known collections of dinosaur tracks. The Beneski Museum of Natural History also contains the bones of a mammoth, mastodon, and a giant deer skeleton of an Irish Elk (Megaloceros giganteus), a creature who once roamed the Connecticut River Valley during the Ice Age.

Many of our engineering team manage to fit in a bit of tourism on their international trips; this time Rob fitted in a visit to the New England Aquarium in Boston – see his photo’s below.

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