Participating Shared Facilities
Analytical Lab, Marine Science Institute
The MSI Analytical Lab offers comprehensive analytical services including seawater nutrient analysis; elemental carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen (CHN) analysis; and stable isotope analysis of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur.
Facility Link: UCSB Marine Science Institute
Location: Bldg 520
Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration
Our mission is to preserve and enhance our natural heritage through leading biodiversity research, conservation, and ecological restoration, including stewardship of campus lands, organismal biology, and preservation of natural history collections.
Facility Link: https://ccber.ucsb.edu
Location: Harder South 578
Cheadle Center Restoration Areas
The Cheadle Center restoration areas encompass approximately 350 acres, about one-third of campus lands, covering a diversity of restored and protected habitats as well as lands still to be restored. With trails, interpretive signage, and staff support, these sites are available for class field trips and tours and for research use. In addition, long-term datasets on bird use, water stage, aquatic invertebrates, vegetation monitoring, and focused wildlife studies are available.
UCSB Natural History Collections
The UCSB Natural History Collections are a multi-taxa research resource of about 1 million specimens supporting teaching, research, and public engagement, with staff expertise in organismal biology. They provide research vouchering to fulfill data management plan and permitting requirements, along with biodiversity data management resources for identification, historical baselines, bioinspiration and design/engineering applications, and studies of biodiversity change, and include the Herbarium, Invertebrate Zoology, and Vertebrate Zoology collections.
CNSI Facilities – Innovation Workshop, Quantum Structures Facility (QSF), Biological Nanostructures Laboratory
Innovation Workshop: The CNSI Innovation Workshop – a makerspace facility – enables its users to build and test prototypes of their inventions. The Workshop fills a vital gap in campus resources: a place where UCSB researchers and employees from local companies can fabricate and test their ideas with the support of experienced staff.
Facility Link: Innovation | California NanoSystems Institute
Location: Elings
Biological Nanostructures Laboratory: The BNL provides access to complex, high value instrumentation to support and enhance interdisciplinary research at the interface of life science and engineering, and scientific expertise in the theory, operation, and analysis of data generated from such instruments.
Facility Link: Biological Nanostructures Laboratory | California NanoSystems Institute
Location: Elings
Quantum Structures Facility (QSF): Formerly known as the CNSI Nanostructures Cleanroom Facility (NCF), the Quantum Structures Facility (QSF) features cleanroom-based tool sets and processes that complement research in quantum materials and devices enabling unique capabilities in the pursuit of controlling and manipulating materials at the nanoscale.
Facility Link: Quantum Structures Facility (QSF) | California NanoSystems Institute
Location: Elings
NRI-MCDB Microscopy Facility
Founded in 1990, is jointly maintained by the Neuroscience Research Institute and the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The Facility’s mission is to promote microscopy education and facilitate microscopy in research for research groups campuswide. To achieve this mission the Facility houses state-of-the-art instruments, supports expert full-time support staff and provides individual, course and workshop based training in microscopy.
Facility Link: NRI-MCDB Microscopy Facility | UC Santa Barbara
Location: Bio2
Polymer Facility
With equipment for the synthesis of polymers, and monomers (Schlenk lines) as well as polymer analysis equipment: TA Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC) Q2000 temp. -150 °C to 400 °C, (check thermal stability of your sample by TGA) Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC) using chloroform with 0.25% TEA as a solvent (Analytical and Preparative), GPC using DMF with 0.1% of LiBr as a solvent, Two Microwave Reactors (Biotage and CEM), Two Rheometers (with the oven and the water bath), Wyatt DynaPro NanoStar DLS, Nano ITC (Isothermal Titration Calorimeter), and Gas Chromatograph (GC).
Facility Link: Overview | Material Research Laboratory
Location: MRL
Spectroscopy Facility
The Spectroscopy facility of Materials Research Laboratory is the home to the state-of-the-art magnetic resonance instruments in solution NMR, solid-state NMR, MRI, Rheo-NMR, PFG-Diffusion, DNP-NMR, and EPR. Applications range from structure determination, imaging, dynamics/kinetics monitoring, to physical property measurement of a variety of sample systems from inorganic, organic, biological, to their hybrids, and from small molecules to macromolecules like proteins and polymers.
Facility Link: Overview | Material Research Laboratory
Location: MRL
TEMPO Facility
The MRL TEMPO Laboratory has advanced instrumentation for the characterization of materials and chemical samples. A wide range of instrumentation is available for Thermal, Electronic/Elemental, Magnetic, Porosity, and Optical measurements.
Facility Link: Material Research Laboratory
Location: MRL
X-Ray Facility
The MRL X-ray Facility provides state-of-the-art x-ray diffraction tools for characterizing structural properties of a wide range of materials including metals and composites, polymers and biological materials, and electronic and optoelectronic materials in the length scale range of 0.1 nm - 100 nm.
Facility Link: Welcome to the X-Ray Facility | Material Research Laboratory
Location: MRL