including an electron microscope lab, a geochemistry lab, a photographic lab, a thin section lab, and microfossil preparation lab:

 

The Institute is well equipped, including a scanning electron microscope (LEO1530VP) equipped with an energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscope, a transmission electron microscope (JEM-1230), a soft X-ray Transmissometer (VIX-M150), a genetic analyzer (ABI Prism 310), a gas chromatography-mass spectrograph (TSQ Quantum GC, 2009), as well as an isotope-MASS (Thermo-Fisher MAT 253, 2009).