I manage a university service electron microscope facility which provides transmission, scanning transmission, and scanning electron microscopy, each with X-ray energy spectrometry, as well as feature analysis, specimen preparation, and training services. Clients of the facility do basic and applied research in:

• human, animal, and plant health, pharmacy, and bioengineering;

• air, water, and soil ecology, pollution, and resource development and conservation;

• forest pathology, productivity, and development and performance of wood products;

• foods and nutrition:

• engineering, advanced metallic, ceramic, glass, and polymeric materials development, failure analysis, and tribology:

• botany, entomology, microbiology, zoology, chemistry, geology, and physics.