Acquisition of stable isotope mass spectrometry system for biogeochemical research at the Large Lakes Observatory

[0320880]这项授予明尼苏达大学德卢斯分校的重大研究仪器奖为购置一台同位素比质谱仪、一台气相色谱仪和一台顶空气体取样装置提供资金，用于环境科学、生物学、地质学和化学等领域的各种研究项目。它将与现有的ICP-MS和元素分析仪器一起安置在新装修的生物地球化学设施内。它将为大湖区域的环境研究提供目前缺乏的重要的区域能力，重点放在大湖和其他地方的湖泊研究上。新的仪器为本科生和研究生，以及教职员工和研究人员提供了分析技术的实践培训，并为研究项目提供了研究级仪器。该提案得到了美国国家科学基金会海洋科学部的支持。* * *

0320880WerneThis Major Research Instrumentation award to University of Minnesota Duluth provides funds for acquisition of an isotope-ratio mass spectrometer, a gas chromatograph and a headspace gas sampling device to be applied to a variety of research projects in environmental sciences, biology, geology and chemistry. It will be housed, together with existing ICP-MS and elemental analyzer instruments, in a newly renovated biogeochemistry facility. It will provide an important regional capability, presently lacking, for environmental research in the Great Lakes region, with a strong emphasis on lacustrine studies, both of the Great Lakes and elsewhere. The new instrumentation offers undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty and research staff, hands-on training in analytical techniques as well as access to research-grade instrumentation for research projects. This proposal is supported by the Division of Ocean Sciences at NSF. ***