- The school has some of the world's most advanced facilities for earth sciences research. This page presents a partial list of some of our featured facilities. This list is not exhaustive; many of our research groups have facilities of their own in addition to those mentioned here.
- School Labs
- CEES: High Productivity Technical Computing Facility
Chemical Oceanography & Marine Biogeochemistry
Electron Microprobe Lab
Environmental Measurements I Facility
Fission Track Thermochronology Lab
Mineral Separation Lab: Don Lowe, Gail Mahood, Elizabeth Miller
Noble Gas Geochronology Lab
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Lab
Organic Biogeochemistry Lab
Rock Physics Lab (Tiziana Vanorio)
Scanning Electron Microscope
Sedimentary Geology Lab (Mitchell B-69)
SHRIMP-RG: Sensitive High Resolution Ion Microprobe
SIL: Stable Isotope Lab
X-ray Diffraction Lab- In addition, Stanford University has a number of laboratory facilities elsewhere on campus which are available to Earth Sciences researchers:
- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory - some of the best facilities in the world for studying the structure of materials by X-ray scattering and spectroscopy
- Stanford Magnetic Resonance Lab
- Geballe Lab for Advanced Materials
- In addition, a variety of facilities are available through ongoing collaborations with the U.S. Geological Survey, whose western regional headquarters are located about two miles from the campus.