Technician Support: Stable Isotope Laboratory at the University of Tennessee

0004104 MoraThis赠款将提供三年的部分工资支持在田纳西州诺克斯维尔大学的稳定同位素实验室的实验室技术员。这是仪器和设施（IF）计划下的第一阶段技术人员支持补助金。稳定同位素技术员将提供同位素比质谱仪和真空提取线的日常维护和操作，帮助开发和维护适当的分析技术，并向实验室用户，包括本科生和研究生以及其他大学的研究人员提供高质量的指导。该技术人员的支持将使P.I.能够更积极地参与研究。和其他UTK教师在土壤和古土壤，植物-土壤相互作用，前寒武纪碳酸盐，流体-岩石相互作用和蝙蝠生态学的研究，加强研究和教育活动在地质科学和跨几个学科。这将最终扩大对实验室的业务支持基础，并增加一个永久性国家（即，大学）资助的实验室职位。***

0004104MoraThis grant will provide three years partial salary support for a laboratory technician in the stable isotope laboratory at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. This is a Phase I technician support grant under the Instrumentation and Facilities (IF) Program. The stable isotope technician will provide routine maintenance and operation of the isotope ratio mass spectrometers and vacuum extraction lines, help to develop and maintain proper analytical technique, and provide quality instruction to laboratory users, including undergraduate and graduate students and researchers from other universities. Support of this technician will permit more active research engagement of the P.I. and other UTK faculty in their research on soils and paleosols, plant-soil interaction, Precambrian carbonates, fluid-rock interaction, and bat ecology, enhancing research and educational activities within the geological sciences and across several disciplines. This will ultimately broaden the base of operational support for the lab and increase the institutional value of a permanent, state (i.e., University)-funded position in the lab. ***