Analytical Instrumentation for Improving the Environmental Studies Program

用于改进环境研究计划的分析仪器

• 批准号: 9151756
• 负责人: Jeffrey Niemitz
• 金额: $ 4.32万
• 依托单位: Dickinson College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-04-01 至 1993-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9151756&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Analytical; Instrumentation; Improving; Environmental; Studies

Funds from the NSF-ILI Program are being used for the purchase of an Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer and the upgrading of a Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer with a Headspace Sampler. These additions allow significant science curricular enhancement to a rapidly expanding Environmental Studies program which now interacts formally with all physical and life sciences at Dickinson College. These enhancements benefit non- science majors in introductory courses in Environmental Science, Geology, and Chemistry; Geology and Chemistry majors and Environmental Studies certificate participants in intermediate-level, required and elective courses; and many students in these disciplines engaged in independent research and internships. Focus of the project is on a more in-depth examination of the chemical aspects of environmental issues of increasingly great concern to students and society.Specifically, this project is incorporating this analytical component into the broader environmental curriculum at three levels: A) Introducing a broader range of chemical data into the introductory level courses. Heretofore, it has been impossible to deepen the discussion and questioning about prevailing chemical paradigms involving toxic metals and organic pollutants associated with local environmental degradation, the basis for most laboratory/field work at this level of inquiry. B) Introducing theory, operation, and limitations of instrumentation at the intermediate level in innovative ways. Small, well controlled, course-based environmental research projects are teaching the process of formulating a research project with the application of instrumentation to important real-life scientific problems. C) Using instrumentation as tools for independent research and internships to solve more difficult, self-conceived problems.NSF grant funds are being matched with funds from non- Federal sources.

NSF-ILI计划的资金正在用于购买 原子吸收分光光度计的升级和 带有顶空进样器的气相色谱/质谱仪。 这些增加使得重要的科学课程 加强迅速扩大的环境研究 程序现在正式与所有物质和生命相互作用 迪金森学院的科学 这些改进使非- 环境科学专业的入门课程 理科、地质学、化学;地质学、化学专业 及环境研究证书参加者 中级，必修和选修课程;以及许多 从事独立研究的这些学科的学生 和实习 该项目的重点是在一个更深入 审查环境问题的化学方面 越来越多的学生和 社会。具体来说，这个项目是将这个 将分析部分纳入更广泛的环境课程 （A）采用更广泛的化学品 数据导入入门级课程。 在此， 无法深入讨论和质疑 涉及有毒金属的流行化学范例， 与当地环境有关的有机污染物 降解，大多数实验室/现场工作的基础， 调查水平。 B）介绍理论、操作和 中级水平仪器的局限性 创新的方式。 小，控制良好，基于课程 环境研究项目正在教授 制定研究项目， 重要的现实生活中的科学问题。 C）、 使用仪器作为独立研究的工具， 解决实习比较困难，自我构思 问题。NSF的赠款资金正在与来自非政府组织的资金相匹配， 联邦消息来源。