Overview

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Mission

The Organic Mass Spectrometry Facility primarily serves members of the W.H.O.I. Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, but is available to all investigators at the Institution and, as time and resources permit, to other researchers outside of the Woods Hole community.
We provide:

Specialized, state-of-the-art analytical services using instruments which would be prohibitively expensive for any single investigator to develop, operate and maintain;
Timely, high sample throughput and high quality data at a standardized cost, all with minimal instrumental downtime;
New methods development by Facility personnel or student/staff researchers as required by specific projects.

Instruments

Finnigan-MAT DeltaPlus stable light isotope monitoring mass spectrometer;
VG Autospec-Q hybrid high resolution-quadropole mass spectrometer;
(Bruker Avance 400 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer).

User Base

Since 1992, our records list nearly 100 individuals who have benefited from analyses performed on the instruments in this Facility:

Instrument
Years
Individuals
Lab-Groups
Lab-Groups (non-WHOI) (fee for service)
Post Doc or Guest Investigator
Graduate Student
Summer Student or High School Student
Technical or Graded Staff

DeltaPlus
1997-Current
60
29
7
21
11
4
10
Autospec-Q
1992-Current
35
15
4
5
11
2
5
Avance 400 NMR
2000-Current
18
6
-
4
6
-
3
AC-300 NMR
1989-2000
20
6
-
2
9
1
3
All

96
30
8
28
33
6
10

This count is certainly conservative, and includes individuals from many other institutions working on a short term basis within WHOI laboratories. Older instruments not listed here (Finnigan 4500 GCMS, 1982-1996, Finnigan 1015 and 3200 GCMS’s, 1971-1992) served a similarly numerous and diverse clientel.

Governance

Facility oversight rests with a User’s committee of three principal users from the WHOI scientific staff, one external scientist and the Facility manager. The committee meets quarterly, but ad hoc meetings open to all users are scheduled as needed. The committee chair serves as the supervisor of any Facility personnel. Facility personnel have full responsibility for scheduling, operational and financial activities.

Scientific Acknowledgments

Data is generally produced in the Facility without any expectation of co-authorship; acknowledgments however are certainly welcomed.

The Facility tries to maintain a bibliography of all papers, presentations and theses that have used data generated on our instruments. If you send us a citation for any such publication, we would appreciate being able to include it in this bibliography.