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November 2006 — UBC

On the occasion of the Belgian Princely Economic Mission to Canada, a series of Memorandums of Understanding were signed between various Belgian and Canadian institutions.

Dr. Dominique Weis, as Director of PCIGR (Pacific Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical Research), was one of the signatories to a Memorandum of Understanding with the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, to promote scientific, technological and educational exchanges between Canada and Belgium. Student and Postdoctoral Fellowship exchanges will be promoted under this agreement.

For more information, contact Dr. Weis at dweis@eoas.ubc.ca.

July to December 2004

What an undertaking all this was — all newly installed instruments had to be moved for the seismic upgrade in the Chemistry building. New, certified clean laboratories were built in EOS Main! See photos here: PCIGR relocation in the basement of EOS Main for the instruments and new clean labs (Dec 2004).

More instruments were moved in December 2004. See photos here: PCIGR Phase two: all home in EOS main.

May 14, 2004

A warm welcome to official collaboration, research and student exchange between our two universities.

December 12, 2002 — UBC Chemistry Building

Drs. Dominique Weis and Jim Mortensen officially open PCIGR and dedicate the lab to Dr. Richard Lee Armstrong.

Dr. Lee was an expert in the fields of radiogenic isotope geochemistry and geochronology, geochemical evolution of the earth, geology of the North American Cordillera, and large-magnitude crustal extension. PCIGR will carry on this legacy of foundational and applied geological and geochemical research.

January to June 2002 — UBC Chemistry Building

Nu 021 MC-ICP-MS and Triton TIMS (Finnigan) are installed.

These photos do not do justice to the stress of that event … The instruments did not go through the basement doors of the Chemistry building, the crane was moving too much, etc…. All ended up well, but … the clean labs were very basic.

What it all looked like after 6 months — we have gone a long way since then, even after a few lab catastrophies: AC leaks, melted piece, chem lab fiasco (or what happens when one use steel in exhaust pipes …).