Development of Environmental Science Instrumentation Core Facility

环境科学仪器核心设施开发

• 批准号: 0112570
• 负责人: Ramaraj Boopathy
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Nicholls State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-01 至 2004-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0112570&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; Environmental; Science; Instrumentation; Core

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.

路易斯安那州蒂博多尼科尔斯州立大学的R. Boopathy博士获得了一笔赠款，用于开发环境科学仪器核心设施。该设施的目的有三个：(1)加强对环境科学学生的培训，(2)使传统教师能够接受新的培训，(3)促进教师的研究。本项目将为实验室配备分析仪器，包括气相色谱仪、高效液相色谱仪、紫外-可见分光光度计、BIOLOG微生物鉴定系统和其他小型设备。这一基本设备将(1)增加学生的教育机会和研究活动，(2)加强学生为职业生涯和学士学位后学校的准备，(3)促进教师和研究人员的发展，(4)促进现有教师的保留，并促进吸引新教师，(5)提高大学环境科学项目的价值。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，该地区一直是石油和天然气工业高度发展的地区。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烃污染地点的厌氧生物降解。GC和HPLC将广泛用于石油烃的定量，BIOLOG系统将用于鉴定负责降解石油烃的好氧和厌氧细菌。此外，这些仪器将用于分析地下水和地下环境样品中的其他工业污染物，如氯化脂肪族化合物，包括四氯化碳和三氯乙烯。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及其环境科学项目的基础设施，而且还将为学生和教师提供其他方式无法获得的机会。项目目标的实现将有助于建立和加强路易斯安那州地区大学的研究机会，这些大学传统上不被认为有能力支持这种潜在的有价值的研究和培训。作为路易斯安那州中南部有13个教区的唯一一所大学，通过个人调查员的区域性重要项目，在历史上缺乏经济多样性的州刺激经济发展的潜力是很高和重要的。