World Bee Day

World Bee Day

It’s World Bee Day! We all understand that pollination is a fundamental process for the survival of our ecosystems. Nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend, entirely, or at least in part, on insect and animal pollination, along with more than 75%...
ASITA Live!

ASITA Live!

ASITA Live – Watch Garry’s talk this morning As ASITA 2025 continues at Port Aransas, Texas, Tuesday’s programme includes a talk by Sercon director, Garry Armstrong on “Laser Ablation IRMS – A technical overview” – at 10.05am. Garry...
LA IRMS sequential sampling of pine needles for 𝛿13C analysis

LA IRMS sequential sampling of pine needles for 𝛿13C analysis

LA IRMS sequential sampling of pine needles for 𝛿13C analysis We’re pleased to publish a new application note using the Laser Ablation IRMS techniques pioneered by a collaboration between Sercon, Terra Analitic and Teledyne Photon Machines. Great Basin bristlecone...
Amherst Installation

Amherst Installation

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....
Laser Ablation in Action

Laser Ablation in Action

Laser Ablation in Action The high profile Laser Ablation IRMS technique uses a finely focused laser beam to remove microscopic amounts of material from the sample surface, which can be seen in this clever little video. One of the technique’s key benefits is that...
ASITA 2025

ASITA 2025

ASITA 2025 This year’s ASITA 2025 Conference (Advances in Stable Isotope Techniques and Applications ) is hosted by the CORE laboratory, led by Dr. Ryan Hladyniuk, in Port Aransas, Texas, from May 18th to 21st, 2025. Garry Armstrong and Mark Gibson will be...