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Elemental
Analysis Supplies
Costech
Analytical Supplies
Exeter
Analytical
Elemental
Microanalysis (UK, NJ warehouse) (TC/EA
repair/heating
elements, isotope stds)
for US see also:
EA
consumables
SerCon
(Europa, UK)
OEA Labs (UK,
glassy C tubes, filaments)
for
US see also: ElementalMS
IVA
Analysentechnik e.K (Germany, TC/EA, GCC,
GC-TC-isotope stds)
Labco (UK,
Exetainers, GasBench)
Hekatech (Germany,
EA, TC-O--flow through glassy C only)
CE Elantech
(Carlo-Erba/Thermo Flash EA's)
UIC Inc (also
TIC/TOC/sulfites)
OI Analytical
(TOC--connected to IRMS)
Alpha
Resources (carbon and sulfur in steel)
Elementar
Americas (EAs, Isoprime. Pyro Cubes)
HTW (glassy C
manufacturer--specs required)
Septa (see also Chromatography below),
PCTFE (Kel-F):
Plastic
Profiles
Professional
Plastics
Applied
Plastics Technology, Inc. (APT, Rhode Island)
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Glass
and O-Rings
Ace
Kimble-Chase
(old Kontes, now part of DWK = Duran + Wheaton
+ Kimble)
ChemGlass (also via
VWR, carries Kontes style valves)
SP Industries
(includes Wilmad and Virtis)
Heraeus
Quarzglas basic products (worldwide, low C)
Wale
Apparatus
Specialty
Bottle
MoreBeer (glass
carboys)
Allorings.com
(o-rings, Marco Rubber)
GM Associates, Inc.
(quartz tubing for making heated gases:
isotopologue CO2)
Wheaton Science
(now part of DWK =
Duran + Wheaton + Kimble)
Wilmad-Labglass
(Reliance
division in Chicago for glass blowing/repairs)
Yale Glass
Shop--scientific glassblowing laboratory
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Vacuum
Supply and Repair
Duniway Vacuum Corp
(used, refurbished).
Capitol Vacuum
(used, repair, turbo)
A & J Vacuum
Services (used, repair, turbo)
Nor-Cal Products
(seals)
A and N Corporation
(connectors)
Alert
Scientific (repair)
Pfeiffer
Vacuum (roughing, turbo, repairs)
Leybold
vacuum systems, US
Adixen (Alcatel
Vacuum)
Precision
Plus Vacuum parts
Edwards
Vacuum
Welch
Vacuum
Vacuum
Pump Supply Co.
PTB
Sales (oil diffusion rebuilds)
Varian
pumps
(includes diffusion--now part of Agilent)
see also
vactek
Kurt
J. Lesker corp. and
their
vacuum short course
ABBOTT Rubber
CO Inc., rubber tubing/vacuum hoses
SIS Web (cheap oil)
Lacotech
MDC vacuum
company
SPI Supplies
TurboVacuum.com
Ideal vacuum
products (was PChem Labs)
Allstate
Gasket
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Gasses
Airgas for
U of Chicago information, click here (note: contact
information current, pricing is not)
Oztech
Trading
Corporation
Spectra
Gases--now
part of Linde (high purity CO, 18O
water-now part of CIL)
GTS
Gases--now Praxair (CO with 18O around
SMOW--not sure now)
Scott
Specialty
Gases--now Air Liquide
IGX
Group (Specialty, BrF5--login now
required?)
Galaxy
Chemicals
(Oklahoma, BrF5)
Advanced
Research Chemicals, Inc. (BrF5 ? or try
ClF3)
Pfaltz &
Bauer (rare and fine chemicals, isotopes)
Gas Handling
Swagelok (Cajon)
Hoke (Gyrolok)
Parker
(Parker-Hannifin,
Veriflo, Pneutronics)
(see also chromatography)
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Alumina
Tubing & Heating Elements
International
Ceramic
Engineering
Bolt
Technical
Ceramics (a division of Morgan Advanced Ceramics)
Ortech
Advanced Ceramics (large bore)
McDanel
Ceramics
SentroTech
(ceramics, MoSi2 heating elements)
Kanthal Globar
(high temp heating elements, $300 min order)
MHI Inc. (high temp
heating elements, min order >$300?
Mellen
Company (heating elements, rebuilds)
Omega Engineering
(temperature/termocouples/ceramics)
see also Elemental
Analysis
supplies above, and your OEM.
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Mass Spectrometers
Thermo
Scientific
parts from Thermo Unity
Lab Services (use part number, Instrument
compatibility guide off)
IsoPrime
IsotopX (TIMS and
noble gas)
Scientific Inst.
Services (source cleaning/rebuild filaments)
SerCon
MasCom (parts
for Thermo mass specs, etc.)
Cavity Ring Down
Spectroscopy (IR stable isotope analyzers,
good for water, esp D/H, ok for 13C )
Picarro
Los
Gatos
Scanning IR:
Thermo
Delta
Ray
Ecotech
Research (full FT-IR with long path length cell)
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Used,
Repaired
and Refurbished Equipment
Labx
Genentech
(pumps, etc.)
Compco Analytical,
Inc. (GC-MS)
Scientific Inst.
Services (pump repair kits, etc.)
Alert
Scientific (repair)
see also Spectroscopy
Now
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Stable
Isotope Suppliers
Cambridge
Isotope
Labs
Spectra
Gases (18O water-see CIL above)
ICON Isotopes
C/D/N Isotopes
Omicron
Biochemicals (sugars, nucleosides)
some examples from Isogeochem site:
Sigma
Breath
Test
Los Alamos National
Labs, (isotopes,
radioactive) (stable-may
not
be active)
Campro
see also Standard Materials and Information
below
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Standard
Materials
and Information (some
links not Chrome friendly)
NIST
NIST
Light
Stable Isotopes
NIST
Stable
Isotopic Materials
IAEA
Reference Materials (formally AQCS)
very large .pdf
download: IAEA
TechDoc
825
IAEA
Publications
IAEA Stable Isotopes
Catalogue
CIAAW Isotopic
Standards
Z.D Sharp "Principles
of
Stable Isotope Geochemistry, 2nd edition".
USGS-science
center
USGS Reston
Stable Isotope Lab
USGS
USGS
publications (was viewed with DeJaVu, now
PDF--see site)
Secondary Stds:
Indiana
University:magic
Zn, n-alkanes, etc., Arndt Schimmelmann
Oztech
Trading Corporation (isotopems <at> gmail...)
IVA
Analysentechnik e.K (Germany, TC/EA, GCC, GC-TC-EA
isotope stds)
Elemental
Microanalysis (UK) (also
TC/EA
repair/heating elements-EA isotope stds)
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Laboratory
Supplies
U of Chicago
Stockrooms
see PSD local
business center (see also: BuySite, Fisher U
of C Gordon Storeroom)
Gordon Center for Integrative Science contains both
Receiving and Stockroom, 1st floor.
Other Divisions
U of Chicago
Environmental Health and Safety (for
police or shuttles, see Community
Safety)
also check out U of Chicago
Physical Sciences Division
Business
Center
BuySite
Purchasing
info.
Chromatography
Grace Davison
Discovery (Alltech, consumer sales--is closed
down)
Buchi (see
chromatography)
Bio-Rad
(chromatography division)
Optimze
Technologies (UHPLC)
Restek
Scientific Inst.
Services
SGE (now Trajan
Scientific)
SigmaAldrich
analytical chromatography (was Supelco)
(part of Sigma Millipore)
Phenomenex
Chromatography
Research
Supplies (carry 1/16" large bore graphite/vespel
213100)
CSS Analytical
Quadrex corp.
Macherey-Nagel
(13mm Pharma-Fix equivalent)
Vici-Valco (ZF1V
1/16" ferrules, valves, mini-vise septa drill bits)
see also McMaster-Carr
for
left-handed drill bits
Chemicals
Alfa
Aesar
(Lancaster) (also via VWR, and now bought by
ThermoFisher)
Sigma-Aldrich-Fluka-Supelco
Acros Organics
(also bought by ThermoFisher)
EMD (Merck)
(also via VWR--now EMD Millipore, part of
Sigma-Millipore)
J.T.
Baker/Mallinckrodt (now part of Avantor;
Mallinckrodt name of a pharmaceutical co.)
order via local supplier, e.g., VWR, Fisher,and:
Wilkens-Anderson
Co. (WACO; Chicago, IL)
MG
Scientific (Pleasant Prairie, WI)
Capitol
Scientific (also carries Dow electronic materials)
(Austin, TX)
Macalaster-Bicknell
(New
Haven, CT--closed)
VWR (US store
site) (now part of Avantor)
Fisher
Scientific
(merged with Thermo)
Spectrum
Chemical
Cole-Parmer
Thomas Scientific
Forestry
Suppliers (was Ben Meadows)
Ward's Natural Science
(Earth Science, forceps)
SKS Science
(labware, containers)
Electron
Microscopy Sciences (general supplies too)
FMI Liquid Pumps
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Industrial
Supplies
McMaster-Carr
Grainger
MSC Corp
Galco
and electronics:
TRC
Electronics (power supplies)
Digi-Key
(electronic components)
Rochester Electric
(electronic components)
Arrow Electronics
Corp.
Avnet Electronics
Marketing
Newark-in-one
(electronic components)
Ohmite (resistors)
and the small stuff:
Fine
Science Tools
Fine Tools
(woodworking, etc., Germany)
ToolPlanet (in
Illinois)
Workshop
Heaven (UK)
Highland
Woodworking (US)
Darby Dental
(drill supplies)
Benco Dental
Small
Parts--now
on Amazon, vendor Small Parts
not
Small Parts Inc., a metal stamping/machining company
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Science
Fairs and Fun Stuff
(see also our Fun
Stuff page)
Academy of Sciences:
Illinois
Junior Academy of Sciences (see participating
schools under Regional Info)
check your local states, e.g. Pennsylvania Junior
Academy of Sciences
Illinois
State Academy of Sciences see also student
awards
Illinois Science Olympiad
National Science
Olympiad web site, policies, state
sites, look under "about" for more info.
Science related stores--see also your local museum's
store
Peabody
Museum Shop (New Haven, CT) note, museum will be
renovated soon
Steve
Spangler Science
Scientifics
Direct (was Edmund Scientific)
Ward's Natural Science
(Earth Science)
List
of
Chicago area schools (Wikipedia)
Phylo (you
align it--sequencing games)
Chicago Area attractions
Argonne
National
Laboratories
Museum
of
Science and Industry (cool) (shop here
with photographs
here)
Field
Museum
(cool too) (as they say: dino-mite
gifts)
School
programs
Science
Alder
Planetarium (cool three...ok, you get the idea)
(online
store)
Chicago
Botanic Garden, education
programs (Garden
Shop online)
The
Morton
Arboretum, for
kids, education
programs (Arboretum Store
online)
U
of C Civic Engagement The
University and the Windy City
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Miscellanea
Nafion Drying Tubes
PermaPure
Halogen Lamps (heaters)
Express Lighting
Bulbtronics
Apple IIe
Shreve Systems--closed....
PC Parts
Tiger Direct
MonoPrice
(Cables)
Newegg
CTC Leaptech Autosampler
Leaptec (also part
of Trajan Scientific and Medical)
Micro Mill
NewWave--no longer available via ESI
GeoMill
Also sells micro-powder recovery system (vacuum).
others--make sure they are suitable for desired
uses:
Denford
MicroProto
Special needles
(see also Chromatography and General
supplies)
Popper and
Sons/Cadence Science
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Other
Labs and Facilities--stable isotope and other
USA
University
of Vermont, Geology
UVM Geology Dept. facilities
UC
Davis
Stable Isotope Labs
UC Irvine AMS
facility
CalTech
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
(Francois,
facilities)
Arizona
State University
Colorado
Plateau Stable Isotope Laboratory
Cornell University
Stable Isotope Center
MBL Stable
Isotope Laboratory (Woods Hole)
SIRFER: Stable
Isotope Ratio Facility for Evironmental Research
(Utah,
IsoCamp)
Duke's
DEVIL
Dartmouth
(Earth Science Facilities)
UMass
Geosciences
facilities
(Amherst)
University
of Michigan Climate and Space Light
Stable Isotopes Geophysical
Union (students)
Penn State;
College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Earth and
Environmental Systems Institute
Dept. of
Geosciences (Miquela,
Earth
System Science Center)
Indiana University Bloomington (for magic Zn
and secondary stds: Arndt
Schimmelmann)
Isotope
Geochemistry at the University of Texas at Austin
(E)
Texas
A&M,
College Station, G&G (plus list of other labs)
Reston Stable
Isotope Laboratory, USGS (Ty Coplen)
USGS-locations
centers, e.g.
Analytical Geochemistry
University
of Arkansas, UASIL
Marine
Science
Institute (UC Santa Barbara)
Washington
State
University, Stable Isotope Core
University
of
Washington, Isolab
University
of
Washington, Oceanography SIL
Lehigh
University
(IR laser fluorination)
Geophysical
Laboratory, Carnegie Institution (Marilyn
Fogel
now at UC Riverside)
University of Alabama,
Dept. of Geological Sciences, Stable Isotope
Laboratory
University of
Georgia, Institute of Ecology also via
Dept. of Geology
University of North
Carolina, Geological Sciences Chapel Hill
University of
Florida
University
of
Illinois,
Dept. of Geology (Picarro for water, see ISGS
below)
Illinois
State
Geological Survey (ISGS), Isotope Geochemistry
Section
University
of Arizona, Environmental Isotope Laboratory
University
of
Arizona, Accelorator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
Lousianna
State
University, Dept. of Geology & Geophysics
OASIC,
Oxy-Anion
Stable Isotope Center (laser fluorination)
Florida
Int'l University., Reseach Centers, see Stable
Isotope Laboratory
Purdue
Stable Isotope (PSI) facility
SIREAL
(Stable
Isotope Ratios in the Environment, Analytical
Laboratory)
International
Australian
National
University, Stable Isotope Facility (Graham
Farquhar)
University
of Toronto, Canada, Geobiology Isotope Lab
Saskatchewan
Isotope Laboratory (snow tunnels,
software:Geodate)
Jan
Veizer Stable Isotope Laboratory (formally G.G.
Hatch, U. of Ottawa)
University
of
Calgary Isotope Science Laboratory
University
of
Edinburgh,
School of Geosciences, facilities
University of
Newcastle upon Tyne
Physical
Geography, facilities
Centre for
Earth Systems Engineering
School
of Natural and Environmental Sciences
isotope analysis via Scottish
Universities Environmental Research Centre
British
Geological Society, NERC earth science
facilities (UK)
European
Center for Research and Education in
Environmental Geosciences
University
of
Waterloo, environmental isotope laboratory
IsoLab
(Max
Planck, Willi Brand)
IAEA
Isotope
Hydrology Laboratory
Queen's
University,
Belfast, School of Natural and Built
Environment, stable isotope facility
Forensic
Isotope
Ratio Mass Spectrometry Network
University
of Otago, New Zealand
Commercial
(isotopes, check Isogeochem
website too):
no longer active: Geochemistry.Com,
Laboratories
Iso-Analytical
(UK)
GeoChron
Laboratories
(US, 14C, stable, etc.)
Metabolic
Solutions (US, medical research)
ZyMax Stable Isotope Laboratory
(US--now DRPA and no longer does isotopic
analysis)
Pace
Analytical (US,
forensic analysis--compound specific and
chlorinated compounds)
Intertek
(international,
methane)
iso-trace (New Zealand)--try
University of Otago (see above)
Elemental
US (US, OEA supplies, unrelated to Elemental
Microanalysis)
elemental analysis, CHNOS and other (US):
Midwest
Microlabs
Elemental
Analysis
(also unrelated to Elemental Microanalysis)
Micro
Analysis (also unrelated...yeah, you
get the idea)
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Informational
Databases
and Communities
Isogeochem
(archives)
no longer...Isogeochem Wiki
Clumpy
Wiki!
iDeal isotopes in Diagenetic environments
and the lithosphere (go Cedric!)
EPA
Data
analysis and models for stable isotopes
("awesome", Ed)
Water
Isotopes
.org
Wikipedia
(stable isotopes)
US
Geological
Survey,
Resources on Isotopes
USGS
Resources on Isotopes, periodic table
Mineralogical
Society of America
Standard
materials and info (above)
NIOZ
(Tex86 protocol no longer available, not stable
isotope based)
Geochemisty
by
W.M White (text book, stable isotope chapter--also
available via Amazon)
Boggy's
Links (geologylinks.com, includes list of Geology
Depts)
Cornell's
Geochemisty
on the World Wide Web
Nitrate
isolation
(USGS, silver nitrate method)
see also, Software/modeling/etc., below
It's a BLAST--genomic
sequence matching, etc.
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14C
Laboratories (tracers/dating), Other Isotopes
and Geochemistry, Etc.
Geochron
Lawrence Livermore
National lab (no longer available at Sandia
National Labs)
no
longer....Radiocarbon.org (list of labs, etc.)
Arizona
Accelerator Mass Spectometry Laboratory
PRIME
(Purdue
Rare Isotope Measurement Laboratory, Be-10, Al-26,
etc.)
Illinois State Geological Survey (UI
Urbana-Champaign) (scintillation counting, prep
for AMS)
There are also
many other types of labs not listed here,
including ICP-MS facilities, secondary ion mass
spectrometry (SIMS, ion beam, etc.), and other
more specialized techniques for rare but still
exciting isotopes--or excited if you are doing
RIMS.
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Other
Isotopes
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Software
and
Computational Support:
see also, Stable Isotope
resources and Databases
above, and U of C Science Centers,
below.
U of C Computational Support:
U of C IT
services--you will have to navigate site to
try to find things
set up Guest
Access
PSD
(Physical Sciences Division) facilities--note: PSD
computing is being redone
GeoSci
Computing--last updated 2014
Geophysical
Sciences
intranet--includes link to provide guests
wireless access
link for Guest
access
Computation
Institute (moving beyond BlueGene at Argonne)
R is below:
GeoWall
(looks cool--archived site at UIC, consortium site
now is for yoga)
for example, see:
University of British Columbia (software, linux
or windows)
see also CAVE2
from EVL lab at UIC
GeoWall
2 (larger wall, no longer active project)
Earth
Models (link to GeoWall consortium goes to
yoga site)
Flash
(stars exploding or maybe plasma formation--high
performance computing)
Mann
(Penn
State)
Holocene tools
CourseWare
(simulators)
OpenOffice
and/or LibreOffice
(works with Zotero if set up properly)
Google Earth
(download program, high speed connection needed)
Google Moon
Wallace and Grommit were right, it's cheese--and it
was a Grand Day Out
Google Mars
.docstock--closed
Wiki--make
your own using Google Sites
other wiki
sites/info: Wikipedia
"Free" Compilers,
Emulators, OS, Tools
FreeDos
Linux
info
FreeBSD
e-Emulators
Digital Mars
(not the planet--C++ and D compilers)
Perl
theFreeCountry
programming
tools
the R project
(statistical programming--it comes after S)
SeaMonkey
(webpage
authoring--and much more--Kompozer site
decomposed)
Python--the snake
that swallowed them all
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Programs
and
Funding
Global Climate
and Energy Project
NSF (National Science
Foundation, US)
NIH (National
Institutes of Health)
DOE (Department of
Energy)
U of Chicago
Research Administration
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U. of
Chicago Science Centers
Division
of
Physical Sciences Depts, Institutes,
Reseach Centers, National Laboratories, wiki, etc.
Physical
Science
Division, Core Facilities
Computation
Institute (moving beyond BlueGene)
Institute for
Biophysical Dynamics
Enrico
Fermi Institute
James
Franck Institute
Dept.
of
Chemistry, Facilities Spectroscopy (NMR,
X-ray, MS, IR, UV), shops, etc.
Dept.
of the
Geophysical Sciences, Research Overview,
affiliated centers and organizations.
Dept.
of
Physics, facilities and resources
Biological
Sciences Division
Office of
Shared Research Facilities (lots of stuff,
check it out)
Biophysics
Core Facility
Flow Cytometry
Core Facility
Proteomics
Core
Facility
Functional
Genomics Facility
Dept.
of
Ecology and Evolution facilities, including
"media kitchen", confocal microscopy, high
throughput screening, etc.
Division
of
Social Sciences
Anthropology,
facilities
Pritzker
School of Medicine
Chicago
Biomedical
Consortium
Chicago
Materials
Research Center (facilities)
rdcep:
robust decision-making on climate and energy
policy
Calumet
Quarter Prairie Ecosystems
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Chicago
Area Science
Chicago
Biomedical
Consortium
Northwestern
Earth
and
Planetary Sciences Integrated Labs
Stable
Isotope
Facility (Andy)
UIC
(U. of Illinois at Chicago)
Stable
Isotope
Facility (Biological Sciences)
ACE
(Atmosphere, Climate and Ecosystems) Laboratory
(Max)
List
of
Chicago area schools (Wikipedia)
National Laboratories:
Argonne National
Laboratories
Fermilab
Museum
of
Science and Industry (cool) (shop here
with photographs
here)
Field
Museum
(cool too) (as they say: dino-mite
gifts)
School
programs
Science
Alder
Planetarium (cool three...ok, you get the idea)
(online
store)
Chicago
Botanic Garden, education
programs (Garden
Shop online)
The
Morton
Arboretum, for
kids, education
programs (Arboretum Store
online)
U
of C Civic Engagement The
University and the Windy City
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U of
Chicago Facilities and Services
U
of C Research Administration Info,
find funding, ID numbers, submissions, policies,
etc.
Engineering
+ Technical Support group (ETSG) (CAD, etc.)
Electronics
Design Group
Central
Shop
Sustainability,
links, e.g. EPIC
(Energy Policy Institute at Chicago)
Environmental
Health
and Safety Training, emergency procedures,
policies,etc.
U
of C Civic Engagement The University
and the Windy City
Human
Resources
New
Employees
Residential
Services
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Metasequoia
Below is a list of some links with regards
to the Metasequoia (dawn redwood), a "living
fossil" which is being studied and Yale and
other institutions. Please follow the links,
which are to outside sites, "for the rest of
the story."
Information
closed?
metasequoia.org
Chicago
Botanic Garden
U.
of Chicago, alas no metasequoias but check out
what trees are here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasequoia
Skidmore
UConn
Conifers.org
Vermont
(dawn redwood)
Virginia
Tech Dendrology
Stanford
http://www.satsig.net/metasequoia-glyptostroboides.htm
Oregon
state fossil fyi: oregonfossilguy moved to Idaho
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200005396
Dave's
Garden
Live Plants
Meadows
Farms
Burncoose
Nuseries (UK)
When checking local stores, try asking for either
"dawn redwood" or "metasequoia".
Bonsai
Bonsai-BCI
species guide
Bonsai
Boy of New York
Evergreen
Gardenworks
Fossils
Paleodirect--collection
varies, may not have metasequoia
Educational
Fossils, plant collections
Fossilmuseum--living
fossils
Fossilicious--search
for metasequoia
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