The MERS research group includes the Service of Inorganic Geochemistry for Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography of the ICTA-UAB. The SIGPO is interested in collaborating with other research groups by offering analytical services to universities, research centers and companies. 

The SIGPO offers a diverse range of activities and services directed toward processing and analyzing geologic samples for paleoenvironmental reconstructions, generally on climate and oceanographic conditions. The properties of interest are sea surface temperature (SST), salinity, nutrients, circulation, carbonate chemistry (pH), and more from past oceanic environments. It also can be used on terrestrial systems as well. It further directs efforts toward modern validation and calibration studies of this kind. 

The service offers a large range of techniques including: 

• Sediment processing and sieving for microfossil separation
• Cleaning of carbonate materials for trace elemental analyses, under laminar flow conditions
• Trace and minor elemental analyses via quadrupole ICP-MS (operated by SAQ)
• Sample preparation and analyses for stable isotopes of carbonates and water samples (δ¹⁸O, δ¹³C)
• Automated image analyses of nannofossil (coccolithophores) and estimation of morphometric parameters (size, mass)
• Climate and paleoceanographic reconstructions based on inorganic geochemical and micropaleontological
• Biostratigraphic sequence development via δ¹⁸O techniques
• Elemental and isotopic method development and proxy validation/calibration from modern materials (both marine and freshwater carbonates)