Policy: 

The department has four departmentally owned -80 freezers available for two purposes; storage (for users with small footprints who do not need or wish to purchase their own -80 freezer) and emergencies (i.e. failure of PI-owned -80 freezers). 

There are two types of fees associated with use of a department freezer.

1) Rack rental: applied per rack per month, pending space availability (we have to keep ¼ of each -80 freezer free for emergency use). There are 24 racks / freezer.

Charges include:

• The use of 1 rack (each rack is 5”x5”x2” w/o a hinge)

2) Emergency -80 freezer failure.

Charges include:

• The use of 24 racks (equivalent to 1 entire freezer), spread across the 4 departmentally owned freezers. Costs will be for using 24 racks regardless of how many racks are used (racks are kept empty and available to provide the service). It is anticipated that the user will move out items within 2 months (e.g. into a new freezer) or rent racks for storage (pending space availability).
• Two hours of staff time to assist in moving items from the failed -80 freezer to the departmentally owned -80 freezer.

For more information or if you need to use a freezer, contact:

Life Sciences Building Lab Services Manager: Aaron Hernandez (aaroneh@uw.edu) 206-543-7381

Back-up Contacts:

Alex Hansen (ahansen@uw.edu) 206-478-8747
Ron Killman (killmr@uw.edu) 206-734-6130