Services - LUCAS
At Lakehead University's Centre for Analytical Services we meet your analytical needs with accurate and fast service. The broad multi-disciplinary expertise and state of the art analytical equipment at Lakehead can provide you with many testing services, all under one roof.
For accredited services, the Lakehead University Environmental laboratory [LUEL] operates and implements the ISO17025 accredited Quality Assurance Management system. The Laboratory is accredited to ISO17025 for various parameters (see scope at cala.ca).
The list below includes many of the services we provide.
Customized Analytical Services
- Aquatic sediments
- Aquatic toxicity (LC 50)
- Barrier remediation technologies testing Contact lab
- Contaminant sources tracing Contact lab
- Experimental and computer modelling of water-rock reactions Contact lab
- Heavy metal contaminants in soils, fish tissue, plant and berries Contact lab
- Inorganic analysis of water samples to comply with federal and provincial monitoring requirements Contact lab
- Inorganic contaminants in soils Contact lab
- Piezometers (Installation and monitoring) Contact lab
- Plant or animal tissue Contact lab
- Precipitates
- Mercury and methylmercury (total) in water, tissue, soil, sediment Contact lab
- Mineralogical and geochemical characterization of mine waste materials Contact lab
Fuels Characterization
Geospatial and Mapping
- Cartographic map creation Contact lab
- Publication quality map generation Contact lab
- Spatial analysis Contact lab
- Geospatial project management Contact lab
- Data collection Contact lab
- Data management Contact lab
- 3D modelling Contact lab
- 3D visualization Contact lab
- Chemical purity testing
- Chemical characterization of air-sensitive samples (X-ray diffraction)
- Contaminant & deposit materials
- Corrosion products and process materials (such as mining ore products)
- Materials characterization (via integrated analytical methods)
- Polymers Contact lab
- Strategic, industrial and high-tech materials characterization
Microbiology Testing and Microbial Characterization Services Contact lab
Mineralogical (Services for Mining Exploration and Prospectors)
- Assessment of geological samples
- Clay and zeolite analysis
- Experimental Services Contact lab
- Fluid inclusion analysis Contact lab
- Rare Earth Elements
- Semi-quantitative phase analysis by XRD
- Separations (e.g., heavy liquids) Contact lab
- Thin section preparation
Molecular Synthesis and Analysis
- Aqueous silicon chemistry Contact lab
- Chemical characterization Contact lab
- Fabrication of thin films Contact lab
- Molecular modeling Contact lab
- Nanostructured materials synthesis Contact lab
Plant Tissue
- Plant tissue analysis Contact lab
- Abrasion testing of flooring and other surfaces
- Pulp chip analysis (species percentage, chip quality, chip size)
- Wood structural mapping (X-ray)
- Wood mechanical and physical properties
If you are looking for an analytical service not listed above, please call Dr. Francis Appoh at 807-343-8010, ext 8853 or email him at fappoh@lakeheadu.ca to find out if we can provide the expertise you are looking for.