The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences ( https://www.uta.edu/academics/schools-colleges/science/departments/ees ) at UTA brings together collaborative faculty expertise across key areas including sedimentary geology, geochronology, atmospheric and environmental chemistry, environmental health, climate change, oceanography, tracer hydrology, and hydrogeology. The Shimadzu Institute for Research Technologies ( https://shimadzuinstitute.org ) at COS is a centralized research resource focused on providing access to instrumentation and expertise to support research in biochemistry, biology, chemistry, cognition, engineering, geoscience, material science, nanotechnology, and neuroscience.