Improvement of Soil and Ecosystem Analysis Laboratory

本项目提供设备（碳/氢/氮 分析仪和自动分析仪），以完成现代 仪器分析实验室本科研究 植物和土壤、生态系统动态和环境 环境科学系的问题， 阿勒格尼学院。 该计划始于1985年， 水质分析课程的现代化， 建立水质实验室。 该计划已 最近又设立了一个新的教职， 提供生态系统地球化学方面的专门知识， 分析，并通过引入两个新的课程， 土壤与环境，生物地球化学。 这两门课程 包括实地考察生态过程 和样本收集，以及样本的实验室练习 制备和仪器分析。 一个另外和 该计划的一个极其重要的组成部分是可用性 学生在高中综合考试期间使用的仪器 研究项目，要求所有学生。 完成 该实验室通过购买CHN分析仪和 autoanalyzer是提供直接的经验，在使用 现代技术和分析仪器， 生态系统和环境动态的过程级分析。 受赠人是匹配这个奖项从非联邦来源。

This project is providing equipment (Carbon/Hydrogen/Nitrogen analyzer and an autoanalyzer) necessary to complete a modern instrumental analysis laboratory for undergraduate studies of plants and soils, ecosystem dynamics, and environmental problems in the Department of Environmental Science at Allegheny College. This program was begun in 1985 with modernization of a course in Water Quality Analysis and with development of a Water Quality laboratory. The program has been furthered recently by creation of a new faculty position to provide expertise in ecosystem biogeochemistry and analytical analysis, and by introduction of two new courses, Soils and the Environment, and Biogeochemistry. Both courses involve field trips for investigation of ecological processes and sample collection, and laboratory exercises for sample preparation and instrumental analysis. An additional and extremely important component of this program is availability of instruments for use by students during senior comprehensive research projects, required of all students. Completion of this laboratory through acquisition of a CHN analyzer and an autoanalyzer is providing direct experience in the use of modern techniques and analytical instrumentation to perform process-level analyses of ecosystem and environmental dynamics. The grantee is matching this award from non-Federal sources.