UC Davis 2008-2010 General Catalog - General Catalog - UC Davis

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ers, marketers and consumers of fresh fruit and vegetables. The
facility is equipped with 18 controlled-temperature rooms, eight
research laboratories, specialized postharvest analytical equipment,
advanced rapid test equipment for human pathogens, and a
small conference room.
Materials Science Central Facilities
Kemper Hall; lower level rooms 108-167
Mike Meier, Director; mlmeier@ucdavis.edu
http://www.matscicf.ucdavis.edu/
Central Facilities is a group of eight laboratories that provide
many essential resources for the faculty, students and researchers.
Major equipment at MSCF includes a Scintag XDS-2000 powder
diffractometer, an SEM (Philips FEI XL30 SFEG) one TEM (Phillips
CM-12), a TEM/STEM (JEOL 2500 SE), FT-IR and FT-micro-
Raman spectrometers (Bruker RFS 100) and a small-angle x-ray
scattering system (Bruker AXS). MSCF is also fully equipped for
metallography and electron microscopy sample preparation
including a new ion milling system. The goal in developing these
laboratories was to provide an infrastructure that could serve the
wide range of ongoing research activities in this department and in
collaborations with researchers in other departments and institutions.
All equipment in this facility are available to users from both
within and outside UC Davis at nominal hourly rates. This infrastructure
is also a key part of our laboratory teaching program.
Students get to use professional, research-grade instruments to do
modern, sophisticated experiments similar to those they will be
doing in their future employment or in their graduate studies.
Natural Reserve System
Virginia Boucher, Manager
The Barn
(530) 752-6949; http://nrs.ucdavis.edu; http://nrs.ucop.edu
The UC Davis campus administers six reserves that are available
for teaching and research.
• Bodega Marine Reserve, located at Bodega Bay, 100 miles west of
campus, consists of coastal dune vegetation and bay and coastal
tidal areas with facilities for overnight and longer stays; see
Bodega Marine Laboratory and Reserve, on page 22.
• Eagle Lake Biological Field Station is on the shore of Eagle Lake
in northeastern California and has boats, a small laboratory and
facilities for overnight and longer stays.
• Jepson Prairie Reserve, located in Solano County 13 miles south
of Dixon, consists of native California bunchgrass grasslands,
vernal pools, playa lakes and freshwater sloughs.
• Donald and Sylvia McLaughlin Reserve, located near Clear Lake
about 70 miles northwest of campus, consists of Inner Coast
Range habitat with a mix of serpentine and non-serpentine soils.
The reserve has a facility for long-term overnight stays with a
well-equipped kitchen, full bath and a camping area for class
groups.
• Quail Ridge Reserve consists of Inner Coast Range habitat
located about 30 miles west of campus on a peninsula jutting
into Lake Berryessa. The reserve has a facility with a wellequipped
kitchen, full bath, 3 four-wheel drive vehicles and
camping areas for groups.
• Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve, located about 24 miles west of
campus, has representative populations of several different plant
communities found in California’s Inner and Outer Coast
Ranges.
The university maintains over 35 reserves throughout the state,
many of which are available for teaching and research.
Northern California Nanotechnology Center
West Wing Kemper Hall; Office1125 Kemper Hall; (530) 754-9518
Frank Yaghmaie, Director; fyaghmaie@ucdavis.edu
http://ncnc.engineering.ucdavis.edu/
The Northern California Nanotechnology Center (NCNC), a new
research/teaching/industry facility for nanotechnology and microfabrication,
is housed in the College of Engineering at UC Davis.
NCNC is a world class center for the synthesis, fabrication, and
analysis of nanoscale devices and materials for applications in:
• Electronic devices
• Medicine
•Biology
• Environment
•Optics
Opened in 2004, the Northern California Nanotechnology Center
operates a 10,000+ square foot class 100 cleanroom laboratory.
The laboratory is available for use by UC Davis faculty, students
and staff on a recharge basis. Students, research staff and research
faculty may use any tool in the facility after they have passed a
training/certification module. Local industry may also be interested
in using the facility by becoming an Industrial Affiliate.
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility
Medical Sciences 1D
(530) 752-7677; http://www.nmr.ucdavis.edu
The Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility provides access to stateof-the-art
NMR instrumentation for spectroscopy and imaging to
researchers in the biological, medical and physical sciences. At
present, the facility operates ten spectrometers of varying purposes
and capabilities at field strengths from 300 to 800 MHz. Applications
include structural characterization of organic molecules,
determination of protein structure and dynamics, imaging and in
vivo spectroscopy of small animals, plants, and materials, and
spectroscopy of solids. The Facility also has workstations for offline
data processing. Four full-time staff members are available to
assist campus researchers in utilizing the instrumentation.
Pavement Research Center
3153 Engineering III; (530) 754-6409
John Harvey, Director, UC Davis Site; jtharvey@ucdavis.edu
http://www.its.berkeley.edu/pavementresearch/
The Pavement Research Center uses innovative research and
sound engineering principles to improve pavement structures,
materials and technologies. Work at the PRC focuses on asphalt
and concrete pavements, including design, materials, rehabilitation,
life cycle, maintenance and reconstruction; pavement cost
analysis and strategy selection, effects of pavement activities on
traffic in urban areas and pavement performance modeling.