Images courtesy of Valentina Beccari 

Phosphorus lab

Samples can be analysed for phosphorus content using the SEDEX sequential extraction method and the Total Phosphorus method in the phosphorus lab in the Departement of Geosciences in the University of Fribourg. 

For more information on the methodology check the paper: 

Ruttenberg, K. C., Ogawa, N. O., Tamburini, F., Briggs, R. A., Colasacco, N. D.,  Joyce, E. (2009). Improved, high‐throughput approach for phosphorus speciation in natural sediments via the SEDEX sequential extraction method. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 7(5), 319-333.