Technician Support: Phase I for MC-ICPMS Isotope Facility, Washington State University

技术人员支持：华盛顿州立大学 MC-ICPMS 同位素设施第一阶段

• 批准号: 0434406
• 负责人: Jeffrey Vervoort
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Washington State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-01-01 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0434406&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Technician; Support; Phase; MC; ICPMS

EAR-0434406VervoortThe funding of this proposal will provide salary for a technician to support the radiogenic and heavy stable isotope facility at Washington State University. The technician will be responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Neptune MC-ICP-MS and associated clean laboratory. This position is essential to facilitate the pursuit of many ongoing isotope geoscience projects, in areas such as crust and mantle evolution, igneous petrology, Lu-Hf and zircon U-Pb geochronology, global tectonics and biostratigraphy, and ensure their completion in a timely fashion. The funding for an isotope lab technician will benefit both Washington State University as well as the geologic community, by supporting a facility that has a long-term record of providing geochemical service to geology. Our facilities are open to the geological community and we welcome researchers to come to WSU to perform their isotopic work here. We have several collaborations in place that will bring faculty, research scientists, graduate and undergraduate students to WSU from other institutions to perform chemical separations and isotopic analyses on the MC-ICP-MS. The collaborations with outside research groups have important benefits for both WSU and the visitors by allowing cross-fertilization of ideas and techniques. WSU benefits from the influx of scientific ideas that visitors bring. In addition, the type of isotopic analyses visitors desire often drive the development of new analytical techniques. Visiting researchers benefit by acquiring isotopic data for their projects, but also by learning new techniques and by gaining an understanding of their data from an analyst's point of view. Student participation will be an essential element of these collaborations. The benefit to the student of visiting a different institution and interacting with a different set of faculty and students is enormous and is important step in a young scientist's career development.***

本提案的资金将为一名技术人员提供工资，以支持华盛顿州立大学的放射性和重稳定同位素设施。 技术员将负责Neptune MC-ICP-MS和相关洁净实验室的日常操作。这一职位对于促进在地壳和地幔演化、火成岩学、Lu-Hf和锆石U-Pb地质年代学、全球构造学和生物地层学等领域开展许多正在进行的同位素地球科学项目至关重要，并确保及时完成这些项目。 同位素实验室技术人员的资金将有利于华盛顿州立大学和地质界，通过支持一个设施，有一个长期的记录，提供地球化学服务的地质。我们的设施向地质界开放，我们欢迎研究人员来到WSU在这里进行同位素工作。我们有几个合作到位，将带来教师，研究科学家，研究生和本科生从其他机构到WSU进行化学分离和同位素分析的MC-ICP-MS与外部研究小组的合作有重要的好处都WSU和游客通过允许思想和技术的交叉施肥。WSU受益于游客带来的科学思想的涌入。 此外，参观者想要的同位素分析类型通常会推动新分析技术的发展。 访问研究人员不仅可以为他们的项目获取同位素数据，还可以学习新技术，并从分析师的角度了解他们的数据。学生的参与将是这些合作的重要组成部分。参观不同的机构，与不同的教师和学生互动的学生的好处是巨大的，是年轻科学家职业发展的重要一步。