Pacific Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical Research at UBC
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Pacific Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical Research at UBC
@pcigr.bsky.social
Academic research facility offering high-precision geochemical analyses at low elemental concentrations. Analytical services welcome to all users. Visit us at https://pcigr.ubc.ca/ and https://ca.linkedin.com/company/pcigr
📢 Hot off the press!

Volcanic breccias dredged from the Alpha Ridge in the central Arctic Ocean suggest emergent volcanism during the Late Cretaceous, around 90 million years ago.

Read more about this discovery at rdcu.be/eYkKm
January 9, 2026 at 11:25 PM
🎉 Congratulations to PCIGR’s Julie Prytulak for being appointed as a #CanadaResearchChair Tier 1 in Isotope Geochemistry at #UBC, and for receiving $700,000 from #CFI-JELF!
Read more here: bit.ly/4ouwVeG
October 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
PCIGR is inviting applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in High-Precision U-Pb #Geochronology!

Contribute to our U-Pb program and facilities while developing your own research program.

Details about the position at bit.ly/3K7KPVe
Contact us and apply now at [email protected]!
September 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
🌋🌋🌋 PCIGR will be presenting at #Goldschmidt2025 in Prague next week on July 8!

Catch them in Session 02l: Chemical Heterogeneities in the Earth’s Mantle (session in honor of Catherine Chauvel and Dominique Weis)

Oral Session 02l-O1
Poster Session 02l-P1

Full program at bit.ly/3G3Piqc
July 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
📢 Hot off the press! New paper by Nicole Williamson, Dominique Weis @geochem-dweis.bsky.social, Elly Thistlethwaite, Lauren Harrison, Catherine Armstrong, James Scoates and Michael Garcia on enriched geochemical compositions in Hawaiian lavas. Read here! (open access) doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...
April 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Hot off the press! New paper by Racquelle Mangahas, Allan Bertram, Dominique Weis @geochem-dweis.bsky.social, Jay Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social and Maria Maldonado. Read the paper here! (open access) doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
March 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Welcome to PCIGR! We are located at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Reach out to us if you have a project that requires high-precision elemental, isotopic and/or geochronology analyses. We look forward to assisting you! pcigr.ubc.ca
January 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM