A CHNS Analyzer for Examining the Biochemical Composition of Marine Organisms

该奖项为西华盛顿大学香农角海洋中心购买碳/氢/氮/硫（CHNS）分析仪提供资金。由于其在普吉湾盆地的位置，海洋环境及其资源对当地地区的重要性，以及学生的兴趣，该中心的研究重点正在转向更多的生理和生物化学研究，这一转变将通过购买分析仪来帮助。该仪器将能够研究氮从自然来源、农业径流和其他人为来源进入海洋系统的情况。 氮可以是海洋环境中许多过程的重要驱动力。因此，测量海洋和海洋生物中氮浓度的能力对于了解这些系统如何运作至关重要。CHNS分析仪将可供该中心的五名常驻研究人员、本科生和研究生以及华盛顿州贝灵汉大学主校区的教师使用。

This award provides funds to aid in purchase of a carbon/hydrogen/nitrogen/sulfur (CHNS) analyzer for the Shannon Point Marine Center of Western Washington University. Because of its location on the Puget Sound basin, the significance of the marine environment and its resources to the local region, and interest on the part of students, the research emphasis at the Center is shifting to more physiologically and biochemically based studies, a shift that will be aided by purchase of the analyser. The instrument will enable study of the input of nitrogen into marine systems from natural sources, agricultural runoff, and other anthropogenic sources. Nitrogen can be an important driver of many processes in the marine environment. Thus, the ability to measure nitrogen concentrations in the oceans and in marine organisms is critical to understanding how these systems function. The CHNS analyzer will be available for use by the five resident researchers the Center, by undergraduate and graduate students and by faculty from the main University campus in Bellingham, WA.