About The TAG
A collaborative home for environmental chemistry, analytical facilities, and the systems that make measurements trustworthy.
The Trace Analysis Group at IARC
Shared capability for careful measurements.
The TAG links people and facilities across the International Arctic Research Center, the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, and Icy Seas Co-Laboratory. The group supports researchers working with nutrients, trace elements, isotope ratios, and environmental samples from marine, freshwater, ice, and terrestrial systems.
Our aim is practical: make sophisticated analytical capacity easier to understand, plan for, use, and sustain.
Participating facilities and groups include:
- the Positive Pressure Laboratory at IARC;
- the UAF Nutrient Analytical Facility;
- the Aguilar-Islas Laboratory at CFOS; and
- Icy Seas Co-Laboratory.
What connects the group
Analytical care
Clean handling, fit-for-purpose methods, reference materials, quality control, and explicit limits.
Transparent data
Raw observations, metadata, processing history, and derived products remain linked through documented provenance.
Training and access
Facilities grow through clear procedures, hands-on learning, and realistic expectations about readiness and turnaround.
Collaborative science
Field, laboratory, and computational expertise meet around questions that no single instrument or group can answer alone.
Affiliation and identity
The TAG is an emerging UAF-affiliated collaboration at the International Arctic Research Center. This draft site uses a typographic name treatment while the group coordinates with UAF University Relations about an approved unit signature. The official UAF banner and identity remain primary.