Facilities and Equipment

This state-of-the art facility is funded with an endowment from Signal Hill Petroleum. It currently has an inner clean room with 2 conventional fume hoods and 1 laminar flow-hood, a DIONEX IC 5000 equipped with a DIONEX AS-DV autosampler for cation/anion analysis, a Perkin-Elmer LS 45 Fluorescence spectrometer, a Cary 50 UV/Vis Spectrophotometer, and the Picarro Carbon Isotope Analysis System.

Please note that this facility has moved to CSU Bakersfield.

The Center is a repository of subsurface data and logs for over 14,000 wells in southern California as well as offshore seismic data.

We are a geological data center open to all members of the scientific community, including consulting geologists, those working for companies or government agencies, students, and faculty. We specialize in well data for the Los Angeles Basin and surrounding parts of Southern California as far north as the southern Ventura County line.

Our holdings can be inspected by anyone by appointment. We can arrange for digital and/or paper copies to be made for you at cost. If you provide us with well names and township/range/section locations we can pull the appropriate files before you arrive.

LABSDC is affiliated with the Department of Earth Science at California State University, Long Beach. As such LABSDC is part of a non-profit organization and all donations that are made are used for maintenance and improvement of the data files. Currently most of the data files are paper records. Our efforts focus on preparing an electronic database of our files, and digitizing the files themselves. Many of our clients have files they are interested in scanned, and a copy of those scans is kept by LABSDC. We welcome any donations of funds to further these efforts, as well as donations of data files.

LABSDC has a number of collections of data, primarily oil and gas well logs, drilling reports, seismic data, maps, and cross sections. Among our holdings are:

• Well files donated by Chevron covering Southern California south of a line at the latitude of Ventura; about 14,000 wells are represented, with paper logs, drilling reports, and some paleontologic and other reports.
• Microfiche well files for southern California representing about 30,000 wells drilled before 1980, donated by Dr. Peter Fischer of California State University, Northridge.
• Well files and directional well maps of several fields in the Los Angeles Basin prepared and donated by Dr. Robert Yeats of Oregon State University.
• Well files and other information donated by Russ Simonson.
• Offshore maps and paper seismic and echo sounder data for southern California donated by Dr. Peter Fischer of California State University, Northridge.

The Institute for Integrated Research in Materials, Environment, and Society (IIRMES) is a joint research facility operated by the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and the College of Liberal Arts. It maintains extensive analytical equipment including:

• Agilent 7500ce ICP-MS with ASX-500 autosampler
• GCB Optimas ICP-MS with laser ablation system
• FEI Quanta 200 ESEM
• Agilent Technologies Gas Chromatographs (GC 7683B and 7890A series)

Southern California Marine Institute (SCMI) a consortium of several California State University Campuses, University of Southern California, and Occidental College. It provides access to three ocean-going research vessels, support staff, and dockside facilities.

• Trimble R8 Differential GPS system
• Trimble GEOXH
• Leitz total station laser surveying system
• AGI Supersting R8 Electrical Resistivity Imager
• LaCoste-Romberg high-precision gravimeter
• land-based seismic reflection/refraction system with weight-drop energy source and 24-channel land seismic data acquisition system
• marine multi-channel seismic reflection system that includes a digital 24-channel hydrophone streamer and uniboom and sparker energy sources
• Konica Minolta CM-2600d Handheld spectrophotometer
• Livingstone piston coring system with 35 m of drive rod
• PYLONEX HTH Gravity Corer
• YSI MDS water quality meter w/650 Sonde and 200 foot cable
• water sampling equipment including a Kemmerer trace element sampler
• inflatable raft system
• field vehicles: three 4WD 8-passenger SUVs, one 4WD 12-person van, one standard 12-person van and one flatbed truck
• bladder pump for sampling deep well water
• Grundfos Redi-flow2 pumps for low rate pumping and sampling in wells
• Two Oryx Fiber Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing systems

• Delta-XP Gas source mass spectrometer coupled with
• Gasbench II auto sampler
• TC/EA autosampler
• New Wave MIR-10 CO2 laser coupled to a fluorination line
• CosTech CHN elemental analyzer
• iXRF Systems "Iridium Ultra" combined X-ray fluorescence and electron-beam energy dispersive spectroscopy system, mounted on the FEI Quanta 200 environmental scanning electron microscope
• Saturn DigiSizer™ particle size analyzer with autosampler
• UIC® Carbon/Sulfur Coulometer
• Dionex ICS-5000 ion chromatograph equipped with dual AS-DV autosamplers for simultaneous cation and anion measurements
• Perkin Elmer LS 45 Fluorescence Spectrometer
• Varian Cary® UV-VIS spectrophotometer
• Bruker Optik Alpha-P FT-IR spectrometer
• PIMA portable infrared spectrometer
• Rigaku Miniflex x-ray diffractometer with X'Pert Highscore plus peak identification software
• petrographic thin section-making equipment and microdrill system
• fluid inclusion heating/freezing stage
• ModulyoD® freeze-drier

• Linux workstations and SIOSEIS seismic data processing software
• 13-station graduate computer lab
• 24-station general computer lab
• digitizer tablet
• 42" scanner
• 42" HP color inkjet plotter