News and Events

24 Sep 2025

New state-of-the-art ICP-MS platform now operational

The CSL is pleased to announce that a new high resolution Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS) has now been installed and commissioned in the CSL. This powerful instrument is capable of measuring elemental concentrations in a variety of (prepared) samples at the lowest ultra-trace levels, with the new technology offering world leading sensitivity and spectral resolution capabilities.

17 Sep 2024

The CSL Celebrates 50 Years

On Friday 6th September 150 researchers, students, academics and external stakeholders, as well as past and present staff, came together to celebrate 50 years of operation of the Central Science Laboratory (CSL) at the University of Tasmania.

09 Nov 2023

ARC LIEF grant success – new advanced high resolution Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS) for Tasmanian researchers

The CSL is pleased to announce a successful Australian Research Council grant under the 2024 Linkage, Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Scheme to purchase a new high resolution Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS) – an instrument capable of measuring elemental concentrations in a variety of samples at the lowest ultra-trace levels.

09 Nov 2023

New Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry Imaging technology now available for research

The Central Science Laboratory is thrilled to announce that the new Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry Imaging instrument system is now available for use in the Organic Mass Spectrometry Facility.

20 Sep 2023

New Digital PCR platform available for research

The Central Science Laboratory is pleased to announce that a new Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction (dPCR) instrument is now available for use in the Molecular Genetics Facility.

15 Aug 2023

CSL supports AAD longitudinal study looking at impacts at Australian stations in Antarctica

The contamination of the marine environment surrounding coastal Antarctic research stations remains insufficiently understood in terms of its extent, persistence, and characteristics. AAD researchers investigated the presence of contaminants in marine sediments near Casey Station, located in the Windmill Islands of East Antarctica, during the period spanning from 1997 to 2015. The CSL played a key part in this longitudinal study through extensive sediment analysis for metals using the High Resolution ICP-MS facility with Ashley Townsend.

17 Nov 2022

The CSL is pleased to announce the opening of its new 5-axis Simultaneous CNC Machining Centre

A launch BBQ and “open workshop” on Friday 28th of October saw around 100 leaders, staff, students, and external guests take opportunity to visit the facility, see the new machine in action, and importantly meet with our workshop experts Sean and Phil. It was great to see so many visitors from right across the institution including Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Biological Sciences, IMAS, TIA, Health and Medicine, as well as AAD colleagues. We believe the new machining centre will be a real asset to researchers in the south needing bespoke design, fabrication and repair of specialist parts.

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