Flow Injection Analyzer for the Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry at New Mexico State University

该合同为购买具有流动注射分析能力的自动化离子分析仪提供支持。该仪器将扩大新墨西哥州州立大学环境化学实验室的分析能力，供新墨西哥州一些学院和大学的教师和学生使用。 LEC是一个多用户，多机构的设施，促进环境研究，并在研究生和本科生在环境化学的研究培训中发挥了重要作用。在其他预期用途中，该分析仪将用于检查奇瓦瓦沙漠生态系统中的生物化学转移，包括在Jornada长期生态研究中心进行的研究，并检查植物和内生真菌的相互作用。 这类真菌被认为在生态系统功能、植物营养和群落生态学以及介导植物-草食动物相互作用中发挥关键作用。

This award provides support for the purchase of an automated ion analyzer with flow injection analysis capability. The instrument will expand the analytical capabilities of the Laboratory for Environmental Chemistry (LEC) at New Mexico State University, where it will be available for use by faculty and students from a number of colleges and universities in New Mexico. The LEC is a multi-user, multi-institution facility that facilitates environmental research and plays an important part in the research training of graduate and undergraduate students in environmental chemistry. Among other expected uses, the analyzer will be used to examine biogeochemical transfers in the Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem, including studies conducted at the Jornada Long Term Ecological Research site, and to examine the interactions of plants and endophytic fungi. Such fungi are thought to play key roles in ecosystem functions, in plant nutritional and community ecology, and in mediating plant-herbivore interactions.