SAGES enables shared use of research facilities across Scotland, with the principles of access to these facilities at the home institutional rate at all SAGES members. A review of SAGES facilities has recently been completed and SAGES partners are investing in new equipment and facilities. Those facilities available to the shared facilities pool are listed here.
| Equipment | Status | Institution | Contact Details |
| Particle Size Analyser | New | Aberdeen | c.w.taylor@abdn.ac.uk |
| Differential GPS | Existing | Dundee | S.Dawson@dundee.ac.uk.ac.uk |
| Portable XRF machine | New | Dundee | S.Dawson@dundee.ac.uk.ac.uk |
| Differential GPS | New | Glasgow | Kenny.Roberts@glasgow.ac.uk |
| Fission Track Automation | New | Glasgow | Cristina.Persano@glasgow.ac.uk |
| Differential GPS | Existing | Dundee | j.s.rowan@dundee.ac.uk |
| 14C – GCMS | Existing | Glasgow | Jaime.Toney@glasgow.ac.uk |
| AFTA Referbishment | Existing | Glasgow | Cristina.Persano@glasgow.ac.uk |
| Digital Geoscience Centre | Existing | Glasgow | Zhenhong.Li@glasgow.ac.uk |
| Laser ablation & solution ICP-MS | Existing | St Andrews | acc@st-andrews.ac.uk |
| Luminescence Dating Equipment | Existing | St Andrews | rajr@st-andrews.ac.uk |
| Tree-ring Measuring Systems | Existing | St Andrews | rjsw@st-andrews.ac.uk |
| Equipment | Status | Institution | Contact Details |
| Micro-CT Laboratory | New | Abertay | K.Sturrock@abertay.ac.uk |
| 2 x Eddy Covariance Systems | New | Edinburgh | J.Moncrieff@ed.ac.uk |
| 2 x Fast Methane Analysers | New | Edinburgh | jgrace@ed.ac.uk |
| Forest Observatory | New | Edinburgh | jgrace@ed.ac.uk |
| Remote Sensing Hardware and Software | New | Edinburgh | I.H.Woodhouse@ed.ac.uk |
| Spectroradiometer | New | Edinburgh | Caroline.Nichol@ed.ac.uk |
| DOC Analyser 55 | New | Glasgow | Susan.Waldron@glasgow.ac.uk |
| IRM-LC/MS | New | St Andrews | acc@st-andrews.ac.uk |
| SEM/EDS Detector | New | Stirling | c.a.wilson@stir.ac.uk |
| 3D HIVE | Existing | Abertay | R.Falconer@abertay.ac.uk |
| Hig Res Tomography | Existing | Abertay | w.otten@abertay.ac.uk |
| Atomic Force Microscopy | Existing | Abertay | b.jones@abertay.ac.uk |
| Aerial Photography System | Existing | Edinburgh | twade@staffmail.ed.ac.uk |
| Airborne Greenhouse Gas Analyser | Existing | Edinburgh | twade@staffmail.ed.ac.uk |
| Airborne Hyperspectral Imaging System | Existing | Edinburgh | Caroline.Nicol@ed.ac.uk |
| Airborne Meteorological System | Existing | Edinburgh | twade@staffmail.ed.ac.uk |
| Research Aircraft | Existing | Edinburgh | twade@staffmail.ed.ac.uk |
| Turnable Diode Laser | Existing | Edinburgh | jgrace@ed.ac.uk |
| Clean Lab Infrastructure | Existing | St Andrews | acc@st-andrews.ac.uk |
| Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Analyser | Existing | St Andrews | na9@st-andrews.ac.uk |
| Laser ablation & solution ICP-MS | Existing | St Andrews | acc@st-andrews.ac.uk |
| Stable Isotope Mass Spec | Existing | St Andrews | acc@st-andrews.ac.uk |
| Tree-ring Measuring Systems | Existing | St Andrews | rjsw@st-andrews.ac.uk |
| ICPMS, GIS | Existing | UWS | Andrew.Hursthouse@uws.ac.uk |
| Equipment | Status | Institution | Contact Details |
| Small 7.9m Cheetah catamaran survey vessel | New | BGS | rcooper@bgs.ac.uk |
| Kongsberg EM2040P multibeam and associated positioning system | New | BGS | rcooper@bgs.ac.uk |
| Portable Universal Survey Mount (USM) | New | BGS | rcooper@bgs.ac.uk |
| Benthic imaging towfish (HD video and stills with laser scaling | New | BGS | rcooper@bgs.ac.uk |
| Vibrocorer – 3m, 4m, 6m sediment coring system | New | BGS | iph@bgs.ac.uk@bgs.ac.uk |
| Rock Drill 1 3m, 5m single shot rock coring system | New | BGS | iph@bgs.ac.uk@bgs.ac.uk |
| Rock Drill Multi barrel coring system | New | BGS | iph@bgs.ac.uk@bgs.ac.uk |
| Wet Lab 20ft ISO container | New | BGS | iph@bgs.ac.uk@bgs.ac.uk |
| Dry Lab 20ft ISO container | New | BGS | iph@bgs.ac.uk@bgs.ac.uk |
| SeaBotix ROV | New | BGS | iph@bgs.ac.uk@bgs.ac.uk |
| All Ocean Access ROV | New | BGS | iph@bgs.ac.uk@bgs.ac.uk |
| White Ribbon Survey Vessel with multi beam system | New | BGS | iph@bgs.ac.uk@bgs.ac.uk |
| Marine Test Tank 4m dia 6m deep Tank for testing marine equipment. | New | BGS | iph@bgs.ac.uk@bgs.ac.uk |
| Dundee Satellite Receiving Station (DSRS) | New | Dundee | ntl@sat.dundee.ac.uk |
| Gamma Spectrometer | New | Dundee | S.Dawson@dundee.ac.uk |
| RaDeCC Short-lived Radium Counter | New | Edinburgh | Walter.Geibert@ed.ac.uk |
| X-ray Multispectral Core Scanner | New | SAMS | John.Howe@sams.ac.uk |
| CHASM | Existing | Dundee | a.z.black@dundee.ac.uk |
| Scanning Spectrophotometer | Existing | Dundee | S.Dawson@dundee.ac.uk |
| ICO-OES + Mass Spec 250 | Existing | Edinburgh | Walter.Geibert@ed.ac.uk |
| Environmental SEM 285 | Existing | Glasgow | Peter.Chung@glasgow.ac.uk |
| Mega-corer, U-Wave Digester, Splitter | Existing | SAMS | Mark.Inall@sams.ac.uk |
| Sea-going Equipment Store | Existing | SAMS | Finlo.Cottier@sams.ac.uk |
| Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Analyser | Existing | St Andrews | na9@st-andrews.ac.uk |
| Laser ablation & solution ICP-MS | Existing | St Andrews | acc@st-andrews.ac.uk |
| Luminescence Dating Equipment | Existing | St Andrews | rajr@st-andrews.ac.uk |
| Tree-ring Measuring System | Existing | St Andrews | rjsw@st-andrews.ac.uk |
| Side-scan Sonar | Existing | SAMS | John.Howe@sams.ac.uk |
| AUV Oceanographic | Existing | SAMS | Mark.Inall@sams.ac.uk |
| AUV Multibeam | Existing | SAMS | John.Howe@sams.ac.uk |
| Gliders | Existing | SAMS | Mark.Inall@sams.ac.uk |
| ROV | Existing | SAMS | kim.last@sams.ac.uk |
| RPA | Existing | SAMS | Philip.Anderson@sams.ac.uk |
| Piccaro Oxygen Isotope Seawater Analyser | Existing | SAMS | richard.abell@sams.ac.uk |
| ICP-MS + Seafast Pico System | Existing | SAMS | tim.brand@sams.ac.uk |
| ICP-OES | Existing | SAMS | tim.brand@sams.ac.uk |
| Gamma Spectroscopy | Existing | SAMS | tim.brand@sams.ac.uk |
