Water Sciences Laboratory

 

Water Sciences Laboratory

 

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The Water Sciences Laboratory’s mission is to provide technology, expertise, services, and training in advanced analytical science supporting today’s water and natural resources students, researchers, and stakeholders. The Lab is part of the Nebraska Water Center.

        

 

WSL News

Two visiting scholars joined the Water Sciences Lab this spring and will stay through Spring of 2024. Dr. Joyce Cristale, a researcher at the Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture in the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil will be housed at the Water Sciences Lab during her time at UNL. Her research...

By: Nebraska TodayPhoto: Craig Chandler | University Communication Eight years ago, the data was sound but only suggestive, the evidence strong but circumstantial. Now, DWFI Faculty Fellow Karrie Weber and colleagues, including Water Sciences Lab Director Dan Snow, have experimentally confirmed...

Each year, the Nebraska Water Center produces and funds research through various grant opportunities. In 2022, the Nebraska Water Center and Water Sciences Laboratory received over $3.5 million in grant funding to support research and related efforts. Some of these key awards are outlined below....

 

Client Portal

The Nebraska Water Sciences Laboratory Client Services portal is for current and potential clients of the lab, a current user of the laboratory facilities or those seeking information about lab training. If you are not a current user of the lab, and would like to learn more, please contact us.

Our Laboratory

The lab is located on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln East Campus. The facility opened in the summer of 1990 to provide a convenient working environment for collaborative research on water-related projects. The lab is run by a technically skilled staff who together perform 140 analytical methods on $3 million worth of equipment for a spectrum of clients. Learn more

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Training New Scientists

The lab has become an incubator for young water scientists, training 25 students in 2018 alone. Learn more

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Developing Methods

The lab staff are able to perform 140 analytical methods on $3 million worth of equipment for a spectrum of clients.

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Supporting Water Research

WSL analytical services support university research projects with funding from various agencies.

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