Acquisition of a Gas-Source Mass Spectrometer Facility for Geological, Hydrological and Ecological Research

9977326里昂-这笔赠款通过重大研究仪器(MRI)计划提供部分支持，用于购买和调试阿拉巴马大学(UA)和附近机构用于地质、水文和生态研究的稳定同位素比质谱仪(SIRMS)设施。这将是第一次在阿拉巴马州建立SIRMS设施，并将使来自几个部门的UA教师以及许多地区研究人员受益，其中包括来自南密西西比大学、密西西比大学、杜兰大学、奥本大学、阿拉巴马州农工大学、阿拉巴马州地质调查局和阿拉巴马州环境管理部的教师。一系列不同的研究计划将利用稳定同位素作为水环境中生物地球化学过程的示踪剂，作为地下水流动和来源的示踪剂，研究微生物产生的碳酸盐的生物地球化学，并研究碳酸盐成岩史。***

9977326LyonsThis grant, made through the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program, provides partial support for the costs of acquiring and commissioning a stable isotope ratio mass spectrometer (SIRMS) facility for geological, hydrological and ecological research at the University of Alabama (UA) and nearby institutions. This will be the first establishment a SIRMS facility within the state of Alabama and will benefit UA faculty from several departments as well as number of regional researchers including faculty from the University of Southern Mississippi, the University of Mississippi, Tulane University, Auburn University, Alabama A & M University, the Geological Survey of Alabama and The Alabama Department of Environmental Management. A diverse array of research programs will utilize stable isotopes as tracers of biogeochemical processes in aquatic environments, as tracers of groundwater flow and provenance, to study the biogeochemistry of microbially produced carbonates, and in studies carbonate diagenetic history. ***