Attention Isogeochemers:

With the help of a few people, we have started what we hope will become an
informative isotope wiki including links for troubleshooting front ends,
performing maintenance on various types of IRMS, problem solving tips,
etc.

In order to make this work we need your help.  This is a pretty big
venture and requires help from all avenues of the isotope community
including established research labs, IRMS manufacturers, labs that already
have established troubleshooting protocols for specific front ends and/or
IRMS, front end and consumable vendors, etc.

My hope is that if everyone does a little bit then we could have a very
viable resource for these types of issues.  Of course this will be a
resource that goes hand in hand with the Isogeochem listserve and web
site.

You can view the wiki at the following url:

http://isogeochem.wikispaces.com/

Please realize that the wiki is in it's early stages and we were mainly
just testing out these pages by adding pictures, text and so forth.

I am going to try sending a mass invitation out to the list that will
allow you to signup and begin any editing.  Feel free to edit existing
categories or create new categories.  Since the wiki is only accessed by
members that have been invited, it is possible for anyone on that list to
do the editing.  The next step is to figure out a way to police our own
site to verify the accuracy of the edits (ex. information related to a
particular piece of equipment could be verified by the company that makes
it).  This issue is up for discussion.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Art Kasson

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Art Kasson
Cornell Isotope Laboratory
Dept Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
E440 Corson Hall
Tower Road
Ithaca NY 14853 USA
Phone: 607.254.1382
Fax: 607.255.8088
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Isogeochem website
http://www.isogeochem.com