Documented methods
Controlled procedures, versioned protocols, and traceable changes.
Laboratories & Testing
Measure carefully. Interpret transparently. Build capability.
Stella Nova laboratories will support teaching, research, method development, and appropriately scoped analytical services.
Overview
Laboratories as educational and research infrastructure
Instrumentation should do more than produce numbers. Students and collaborators need to understand sample context, preparation, calibration, uncertainty, analytical limits, and what a result can—and cannot—establish.
Archaeometry & Materials Characterization
XRF screening, comparative provenance, pigments, ceramics, obsidian, metals, geology, and manufactured materials.
ExploreLuminescence & Geochronology
OSL, IRSL, pIRIR, fading assessment, dose-rate planning, and feasibility-stage basalt research.
ExploreAnalytical Services & Consulting
Project design, instrument strategy, data interpretation, methods, and reporting support.
ExploreSample Submission
Project intake, feasibility review, chain of custody, documentation, and scope definition.
ExploreQuality framework
Built toward competent laboratory practice
Calibration & controls
Reference materials, blanks, replicates, and instrument performance records.
Qualified review
Educational participation is supervised; final service reports receive qualified technical review.
Clear scope
Research screening, method development, and accredited testing are never presented as interchangeable.
Next step
Start with the question, material, and decision the analysis must support.
Submit a project outline for feasibility and scope review.