Spectroscopic Instrumentation for San Diego State University Ecology Programs

该奖项为三种分析仪器的采购提供支持：用于营养分析的自动分析仪，用于跟踪生物体和环境中氮和碳运动的稳定同位素质量分析仪，以及用于测量碱金属和重金属的电感耦合等离子体发射光谱仪（ICP-OES），这将由研究与环境相关的各种研究问题的教师和学生共享。 除了圣地亚哥州立大学内几个单位的研究人员外，其他几个美国、墨西哥和加拿大机构的研究人员和学生（圣地亚哥大学、加州大学戴维斯分校、不列颠哥伦比亚省大学和埃尔森特罗生物学研究中心（拉巴斯））也将使用这些仪器。 这些仪器将用于环境研究各个领域的一些正在进行的项目。 这些包括全球变化，淡水和海洋生态系统，植物-昆虫和植物-微生物的相互作用，以及地球化学。该仪器将被放置在一个核心分析设施，支持由NSF和其他一些联邦机构资助的研究，并将与SDSU的建模，遥感和GIS能力配合使用。 该研究将有助于加深对生态系统结构和功能的模式和控制以及海洋、大气、陆地相互作用对生态系统代谢的理解。除了其在研究中的作用，该设施还支持一些教育和培训计划，包括NSF赞助的计划，将科学研究生放在K-6教室，以及NSF赞助的项目，旨在培训本科生使用最先进的仪器和方法在环境科学。

This award provides support for the acquisition of three analytical instruments: an autoanalyzer for nutrient analysis, a stable isotope mass analyzer for tracing the movement of nitrogen and carbon in organisms and the environment, and an inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES) for measuring alkali and heavy metals, which will be shared by faculty and students studying a variety of research problems related to the environment. In addition to researchers from several units within San Diego State University, researchers and students at several other US, Mexican and Canadian institutions (University of San Diego, University of California at Davis, University of British Columbia, and El Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste (La Paz) will have use of the instruments. The instruments will be used for a number of ongoing projects in diverse areas of environmental research. These include global change, freshwater and marine ecosystems, plant-insect and plant-microbe interactions, and biogeochemistry. The instrumentation will be placed in a core analytical facility that supports research funded by NSF and a number of other federal agencies, and will be used in concert with modeling, remote sensing and GIS capabilities at SDSU. The research is expected to improve understanding of the patterns and controls on ecosystem structure and function and the interaction of ocean, atmospheric, land on ecosystem metabolism. In addition to its role in research, the facility supports a number of education and training programs, including an NSF sponsored program that places science graduate students in K-6 classrooms, and an NSF sponsored project intended to train undergraduate students in use of state-of-the-art instrumentation and approaches in the environmental sciences.