Arizona Installation

Senior Field Service & Installation Engineer David Harris travelled to the Bryan Bannister Tree Ring Building at the University of Arizona for a major two-week installation of an HS2022, a Pyro EArth, and a Cryo-LA with Teledyne LSX-213 GC+.

The instruments will mainly be used for laser ablation of tree ring samples, (δ¹³C from CO₂ analysis using cryo-trapping). HTEA Pyrolysis for δ ¹⁸O (CO analysis) & δ HD data. Dual δ ¹⁵N & δ ¹³C data (produced via combustion/reduction N₂ & CO₂ analysis), all from tree and possibly soil samples.

Dave worked with the main user of the equipment, Soumaya Belmecheri as well as Peter Brewer.

In the second week of the visit, Dave was joined by Ruan Hattingh from Teledyne for the installation of their new laser. Soumaya took Dave and the team out for a taco crawl one night in South Tucson where they had fun visiting a variety of authentic Mexican taco shops.

A busy fortnight, but Dave also managed to use his downtime to get out and see the desert  (which was amazing) and visit the town of Tombstone, site of the gunfight at the OK Corral.

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