On Earth with Dave Daquioag - Research Technician
On Earth
English - October 06, 2022 16:54 - 24 minutes - 33.2 MBScience Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Dave Daquioag is a research technician for the Pacific Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical Research at the University of British Columbia where he assists students and researchers with isotopic analysis of their samples. His main tasks include the separation and purification of radiogenic isotopes from whole rock or mineral samples using ion exchange column chemistry and the analysis of Sr isotopes with the Nu Instruments Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer (Nu TIMS). He completed his BSc in chemistry at UBC and has past experience working in different industrial lab settings from characterizing surfactant material to analyzing potash minerals.