Technician Support: Management of Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry and Isotope Geochemistry Clean Labs

技术人员支持：热电离质谱和同位素地球化学洁净实验室的管理

• 批准号: 0622267
• 负责人: Elisabeth Widom
• 金额: $ 24万
• 依托单位: Miami University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-01-15 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0622267&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Technician; Support; Management; Thermal; Ionization

This project involves the creation of a new technical support position devoted to the management of Miami University's two isotope geochemistry clean labs and new thermal ionization mass spectrometry lab. The addition of the new technician position provides much-needed assistance in the day-to-day maintenance, operation, student training and development work associated with the isotope geochemistry labs. This new position doubles the technical support staff in the Miami University Geology Department, and has a particular impact on the isotope geochemistry lab users, greatly enhancing the ability to accommodate larger numbers of in-house users, to accommodate users with diverse applications and sample types, and to develop new chemistry and mass spectrometry techniques. The new technical support position provides an experienced technician, available full-time, to mentor and oversee student lab activities and to enhance student participation in developmental projects. In addition, the technician plays a major role in offerings of new laboratory-based courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, which encourages the use of the isotope facilities by undergraduate students and in-house and external graduate students with diverse geologic interests.

该项目涉及设立一个新的技术支持职位，专门负责管理迈阿密大学的两个同位素地球化学清洁实验室和新的热电离质谱实验室。新增的技术员职位为同位素地球化学实验室的日常维护、操作、学生培训和开发工作提供了急需的帮助。这个新职位使迈阿密大学地质系的技术支持人员增加了一倍，并对同位素地球化学实验室用户产生了特别的影响，极大地提高了容纳大量内部用户的能力，以适应不同应用和样品类型的用户，并开发新的化学和质谱技术。新的技术支持职位提供了一名经验丰富的全职技术人员，指导和监督学生的实验室活动，并加强学生对开发项目的参与。此外，该技术人员在为本科生和研究生提供新的实验室课程方面发挥着重要作用，这鼓励本科生以及具有不同地质兴趣的内部和外部研究生使用同位素设施。