Radiocarbon

The BioGeo(14C)hem Group is part of UC Irvine’s W.M. Keck Carbon Cycle Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (KCCAMS) Facility  – a radiocarbon measurement facility dedicated to supporting carbon cycle research. We process terrestrial and atmospheric samples, including plant matter, soil, soil gas (carbon dioxide and methane), atmospheric carbon dioxide, bulk aerosol, and aerosol fractions.

For more questions, please visit: https://sites.ps.uci.edu/kccams/ or contact Claudia Czimczik (czimczik@uci.edu) or Xiaomei Xu (xxu@uci.edu).

We use a modified OC/EC analyzer to separate organic and elemental carbon from bulk aerosol.
ESS graduate student Shawn Pedron extracts soil-respired CO2 collected from permafrost soils in Northern Alaska from molecular sieve traps that he designed and built with the support of KCCAMS scientists.