Development of Environmental Science Instrumentation Core Facility

已向R博士颁发了一笔赠款。在路易斯安那州蒂博多的尼科尔斯州立大学开发环境科学仪器核心设施。 该设施的目的有三个方面：（1）加强对学生的环境科学培训，（2）使传统教师的新培训成为可能，以及（3）促进教师的研究。该项目将装备一个分析仪器实验室，包括气相色谱仪、高效液相色谱仪、紫外可见分光光度计、BIOPHOSPHOLIC微生物鉴定系统和其他小型设备。 这些基本设备将（1）提高学生的教育机会和研究活动，（2）加强学生的职业生涯和学士后学校的准备，（3）促进教师作为教师和调查人员的发展，（4）既促进现有教师的保留，又促进新教师的吸引力，以及（5）提高大学环境科学计划的价值。 该大学是路易斯安那州中南部的服务机构，自20世纪30年代以来一直是石油和天然气工业高度栽培的地区。 该设施的分析仪器将适当地用于研究沉积物和地下水等石油污染场地的厌氧生物降解。 GC和HPLC将被广泛用于量化石油碳氢化合物，BIOPHOTOGRAPHIC系统将被用于识别负责降解石油碳氢化合物的好氧和厌氧细菌。 此外，这些仪器还将用于分析其他工业污染物，如氯化脂肪族化合物，包括地下水和地下环境样品中的四氯化碳和三氯乙烯。 在尼科尔斯州立大学的环境科学仪器核心设施不仅将加强大学的基础设施和环境科学计划，但也为学生和教师提供了机会，没有其他可用。 项目目标的实现将有助于建立和加强在路易斯安那州的区域大学的研究机会，传统上不承认有能力支持这种潜在的有价值的研究和培训。 作为唯一的大学在十三教区中南部路易斯安那州地区，并通过个人调查的区域重大项目，刺激经济发展的潜力在历史上缺乏经济多样性的状态是高和显著的。

A grant has been awarded to Dr. R. Boopathy at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana to develop an Environmental Science Instrumentation Core Facility. The purpose of this facility is threefold: (1) to enhance training of students in environmental sciences, (2) to enable new training of traditional faculty, and (3) to facilitate faculty research. This project will equip a laboratory of analytical instrumentation, including a gas chromatograph, a high performance liquid chromatograph, a UV-VIS Spectrophotometer, a BIOLOG Microbial Identification System, and other small equipment. This essential equipment will (1) enhance educational opportunities and research activities of students, (2) enhance preparation of students for both careers and post-baccalaureate schools, (3) facilitate development of faculty as teachers and investigators, (4) both promote retention of existing faculty and facilitate attraction of new faculty, and (5) enhance the value of the University's environmental science program. The University is the service institution to south-central Louisiana, which since the1930's has been a region highly cultivated by the oil and gas industry. Appropriately, the analytical instruments of the facility will be used to study anaerobic biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated sites such as sediments and groundwater. The GC and HPLC will be extensively used to quantify petroleum hydrocarbons and the BIOLOG System will be used to identify aerobic and anaerobic bacteria responsible for degrading petroleum hydrocarbons. In addition, the instruments will be used to analyze other industrial contaminants such as chlorinated aliphatic compounds including carbon tetrachloride and trichloroethylene in ground water and sub-surface environmental samples. The Environmental Science Instrumentation Core Facility at Nicholls State University will not only enhance the infrastructure of the University and its Environmental Science Program but also provide opportunities for students and faculty that have not been otherwise available. Achievement of project goals will help build and strengthen the research opportunities at a regional Louisiana university not traditionally recognized as capable of supporting such potentially valuable research and training. As the only university in a thirteen-parish south central Louisiana region, and through the regionally significant projects of individual investigators, the potential to stimulate economic development in a state historically lacking in economic diversity is high and significant.