Due to the COVID-19 outbreak and state of emergency in Massachusetts, our facility, along with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as a whole, will be closed until further notice. Although essential employees are maintaining the facility, we are unable to accommodate visitors for analytical sessions at this time. We are currently able to run samples on a mail-in basis. Mail-in sessions will be run by our staff, with video conferring communication throughout. We intend to return to user visits at a later date, when it is deemed safe to do so by the appropriate local, state, and federal health officials. Please contact Brian Monteleone (bmonteleone@whoi.edu) and/or Glenn Gaetani (ggaetani@whoi.edu) with any questions about future sessions.
NENIMF offers Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) for both earth and ocean sciences, specializing in in situ determinations of trace element abundances in minerals, glasses, biogenic carbonates and oxides, as well as industrial materials.
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Welcome to the Northeast National Ion Microprobe Facility (NENIMF) at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA. The NENIMF is a regional, multi-user National Ion Microprobe Facility which is supported through National Science Foundation (NSF) funded research grants as well as by grants from other agencies and contracts. We provide service, scientific expertise and educational outreach activities to the research community in the U.S. and beyond. This web site is aimed at providing important information about the facility and promoting the use of secondary ion mass spectrometers (SIMS) in research and education.