Technician Support for the WHOI ICPMS Facility

WHOI ICPMS 设施的技术人员支持

• 批准号: 0318137
• 负责人: Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink
• 金额: $ 22.42万
• 依托单位: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-02-01 至 2007-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0318137&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Technician; Support; WHOI; ICPMS; Facility

EAR-0318137Peucker-EhrenbrinkThis proposal requests technician support for Research Specialist Lary Ball, the manager of the ICPMS Facility at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and primary operator of the ThermoFinnigan NEPTUNE multicollector ICPMS. Lary Ball supervises Research Associate David Schneider and Senior Research Assistant Scot Birdwhistell, who are responsible for the routine operation of the ELEMENT2, a single collector ICPMS. Lary Ball has two decades of ICP experience with optical and sector-field instruments. He was involved in establishing the WHOI ICP Facility in 1997 and has been instrumental in developing it into a well-operated, productive and open facility with a broad in-house and external user base. His expertise in ICP spectrometers, mechanical and electronic skills, aptitude for technical solutions to analytical problems combined with his interpersonal skills make him an ideal facility manager. This proposal is aimed at fostering the development of critical analytical protocols (Li, Cl, Mg, Ca, Fe, Sr, Cd, Nd, Hf, Os, Pb, Th, U) on the NEPTUNE, through support of Lary Ball, so the NEPTUNE facility can become self-sustaining in the future with a diverse user base driven by a broad range of new analytical platforms. Support for a full-time technician position will have broader impacts by introducing students, post-docs and guest scientists to state-of-the-art instrumentation, thereby mitigating the "black box" mentality that may overwhelm the geochemistry community with abundant isotope data of questionable quality. Lary Ball will be intimately involved in training users on the NEPTUNE. He will participate in the dissemination of the "tricks-of-the-trade" through a web-based MC-ICPMS user group, analogous to the very effective on-line ELEMENT user group. Development and timely publication of new analytical protocols will benefit a broad and diverse user base at WHOI and beyond.

Peucker-Escherbrink本提案要求研究专家Lary Ball提供技术支持，Lary Ball是伍兹霍尔海洋研究所ICPMS设施的经理，也是ThermoFinnigan NEPTUNE多收集器ICPMS的主要运营商。 Lary Ball负责监督研究助理大卫施耐德和高级研究助理Scot Birdwhistell，他们负责ELEMENT 2（单收集器ICPMS）的日常操作。 Lary Ball在光学和扇形场仪器方面拥有20年的ICP经验。 他于1997年参与建立了世界卫生组织比较方案设施，并帮助将其发展成为一个运作良好、富有成效和开放的设施，拥有广泛的内部和外部用户基础。 他在ICP光谱仪、机械和电子技能、分析问题技术解决方案的能力以及人际交往能力方面的专业知识使他成为理想的设施经理。 该提案旨在通过Lary Ball的支持，促进在NEPTUNE上制定关键分析协议（Li、Cl、Mg、Ca、Fe、Sr、Cd、Nd、Hf、Os、Pb、Th、U），以便NEPTUNE设施今后能够自我维持，在广泛的新分析平台的推动下拥有多样化的用户基础。 对全职技术员职位的支持将产生更广泛的影响，向学生、博士后和客座科学家介绍最先进的仪器，从而减轻“黑箱”心态，这种心态可能会使地球化学界因大量质量可疑的同位素数据而不知所措。 Lary Ball将密切参与Neptune用户的培训。 他将通过一个以网络为基础的MC-ICPMS用户组参与传播“贸易诀窍”，该用户组类似于非常有效的在线ELEMENT用户组。 新的分析方案的制定和及时公布将有利于WHOI内外广泛而多样化的用户基础。