Instrument Acquisition to Analyze Water, Soils, and Biomass for Environmental Research, Monitoring, and Assessment

采集仪器来分析水、土壤和生物质，以进行环境研究、监测和评估

• 批准号: 0216580
• 负责人: Alexander Fernald
• 金额: $ 21.69万
• 依托单位: New Mexico State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-08-01 至 2005-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0216580&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Instrument; Acquisition; Analyze; Water; Soils

ABSTRACTA grant has been awarded to Dr. Alexander Fernald and co-principalinvestigators Dr. Laurie Abbott, Dr. April Ulery, and Dr. Clint Loest at NewMexico State University to acquire major research instrumentation to analyzewater, soils, and biomass for environmental research, monitoring andassessment. The awarded funds will enable purchase of four researchinstruments: 1) a Flow Injection Analysis System with ion chromatograph for analysis of major cations and anions in water, soils, and biomass; 2)a Nitrogen/CarbonAnalyzer for determination of N and C in soils and biomass; 3)a Laser Diffraction Particle Analyzer for measuring particle size distribution of suspended sediment and soils; and 4) an X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrum Analyzer for analysis of metals in liquids, soils, and biosolids. The instrumentation will support research that has the goal ofproviding information to: 1) reduce negative environmental effects of land usepractices, and 2) enhance quality of natural resources in New Mexico and thearid Southwest. Land use impacts on water, soil and biomass threatensustainable economic use and ecological health of rangeland, forest,agriculture, and wildlife in New Mexico. Water quality is a growing concernwith increasing competition for limited water supplies and decreasingavailability of high quality irrigation and drinking water. Rapidly growingdairies in New Mexico generate large amounts of animal waste, and pollutionfrom confined animal production threatens water and soil resources. Metalcontamination is a problem in areas of New Mexico with naturally high mineraloccurrence and in areas impacted by mining, military, and agriculturalactivities. As a minority-serving land grant institution, the mission of New Mexico StateUniversity is to conduct meaningful research, to educate and train scientists,and to extend information to the citizens of the state. The state-of-the-artinstrumentation will provide a leap forward in the ability of universityinvestigators to conduct needed environmental research and fulfill the missionto educate. The instrumentation will initially support the research activitiesof four investigators, faculty in three departments, and federal researchers. It will be used to train graduate and undergraduate students in the use of theinstruments as part of their research. Obtaining this equipment will increaseNMSU competitiveness for future grant proposals. The equipment will supportresearch to provide critical information that will allow agencies, communities,and individuals to participate in meaningful and sustainable programs thatreduce negative environmental effects of land use practices and that enhancethe quality of water, soil and biomass resources.

Abstracta Grant已被授予Alexander Fernald博士和联合原理分层员Laurie Abbott博士，April Ulery博士，April Ulery博士和Newmexico State University的Clint Loest博士，以获取用于环境研究，监测和评估的Analyzewater，Sirmass和Imomass的主要研究仪器。 授予的资金将能够购买四个ResearchInstruments：1）带有离子色谱仪的流量注射分析系统，用于分析主要阳离子和水，土壤和生物量的阴离子； 2）用于测定土壤和生物量N和C的氮/碳纳分析仪； 3）用于测量悬浮沉积物和土壤的粒度分布的激光衍射颗粒分析仪； 4）X射线荧光光谱分析仪，用于分析液体，土壤和生物固体中的金属。 该仪器将支持提供信息的研究，以提供以下信息：1）减少土地利用实践的负面环境影响，2）提高新墨西哥州和Thearid西南的自然资源质量。 土地使用对新墨西哥州的牧场，森林，农业和野生动植物的水，土壤和生物量威胁性的经济使用以及生态健康的影响。 水质是日益增长的关注点，对有限的水供应以及高质量灌溉和饮用水的可利用度的竞争增加。 新墨西哥州快速生长的麦因此产生了大量的动物废物，污染从限制的动物生产中威胁着水和土壤资源。 金属污染是新墨西哥州自然矿物质高以及受采矿，军事和农业活性影响的地区的问题。作为少数派的土地赠款机构，新墨西哥州立大学的使命是进行有意义的研究，教育和培训科学家，并向国家公民扩展信息。 最先进的纪念碑将在大学评估者进行所需的环境研究并完成任务教育的能力方面提供飞跃。 该仪器最初将支持四个研究人员的研究活动，即三个部门的教职员工和联邦研究人员。它将用于培训毕业生和本科生，以使用TheInstruments作为他们的研究的一部分。 获得此设备将提高对未来赠款建议的竞争力。 该设备将支持搜索以提供关键信息，以允许机构，社区和个人参与有意义且可持续的计划，从而影响土地利用实践的负面环境影响，并提高水，土壤和生物量资源的质量。