Environmental Geochemistry Laboratory

The chemical interaction of water with mineral surfaces and natural soils is studied in this laboratory. The processes of mineral dissolution, precipitation, sorption and aqueous complexation are examined.

Landfill Cover Design Capabilities

DRI is a leader in the field of waste containment research and design. Water balance covers (often called alternative or ET covers) offer the opportunity for excellent performance, reduced maintenance costs and better end land use.

Research Vessel Mt. Rose

The Mt. Rose is a 21-foot jet boat equipped with laboratory-grade water quality sensors used to study near shore water quality at Lake Tahoe.

SEPHAS: Scaling Environmental Processes in Heterogeneous Arid Soils

Nevada is a leader in arid ecosystem and subsurface science research using strong teams of researchers at UNLV, UNR, and DRI. Thus SEPHAS brings to Nevada a meso-scale research facility to further bridge existing eco-scale and laboratory (down to nano-scale) research efforts, giving Nevada unique capacity to address many basic scientific questions and address practical problems unique to Nevada and other arid and semi-arid states in the southwest.

Soils Laboratory

The soils laboratory, with the support of the isotope and analytical chemistry laboratories, plays an important role in supporting the Division of Hydrologic Sciences's vadose zone research program. The lab supports specific areas of research including modeling simultaneous transport of mass and energy through porous media; soil leaching; transport of radionuclides through soils and unconsolidated sediments; paleoclimate reconstruction from soil profiles; and wastewater and chemical disposal via land spreading.

Trace Chemistry Laboratory

The Trace Chemistry laboratory is an EPA-certified trace metals lab with a mission to provide high quality trace and ultra-trace chemical and physical analyses of various environmental sample media for the faculty and staff of the DRI and its research programs.

Water Analysis Laboratory

DRI's Water Analysis Laboratory in Reno, Nevada, was established to provide reliable, high quality chemical analysis for a wide variety of sample media. The laboratory has over 30 years of experience and provides analytical services for a wide variety of customers, including federal, local and state government agencies, private industry and other commercial laboratories.

Wellbore Logging Services

Hydrologic conditions vary as a function of depth in wells. DRI has developed several wellbore logging tools that can be used to identify zones where water may be flowing into or out of wells, and to measure vertical flow within wells.