MRI: Acquisition of a Quadrupole ICP-MS

来自主要研究仪器（MRI）项目的资金将用于购买一台四极检测电感耦合等离子体质谱仪（quad ICP-MS），用于对消化的矿物质、岩石、土壤和沉积物、天然水和植物材料进行高精度的微量元素分析。四台ICP-MS将支持纽约州立大学奥斯威戈分校地质、化学和生物系的一系列研究，包括：混辉岩和花岗岩岩石成因的地球化学研究；基于痕量金属指标的海湖沉积古氧化还原条件研究微量金属对胰岛素生化影响的实验研究湿地植被对土壤和水体中重金属的修复潜力研究。纽约州立大学奥斯威戈分校不是博士。授予机构。ICP-MS将使本科生和硕士学生有机会获得对天然材料进行高精度元素分析的最先进技术的实践经验。项目计划将ICP-MS实验室练习纳入若干课程，其中一门课程将包括对从刚果民主共和国取得的饮用水样本进行重金属分析，刚果民主共和国目前公共使用受污染的供水与婴儿死亡率高有关。前进党计划与刚果政府合作，根据对所要求的ICP-MS获得的实验数据的分析，改善公共用水做法。* * *

0821302TomascakFunds from this Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program grant will support acquisition a quadrupole detection inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (quad ICP-MS) to allow for high precision trace element analysis of digested minerals, rocks, soils and sediments, natural waters and plant material. The quad ICP-MS would support a range of research across the Departments of Geology, Chemistry and Biology at SUNY-Oswego including: geochemical investigations of migmatite and granite petrogenesis; investigations of paleoredox conditions associated with marine and lake sedimentation based on trace metal proxies; experimental studies of the effects of trace metals on insulin biochemistry; and studies of the phytoremediation potential of wetland vegetation for sequestering heavy metals in soils and waters. SUNY-Oswego is a non-Ph.D. granting institution. The ICP-MS will afford undergraduate and M.S. students the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with state-of the-art techniques for high precision elemental analysis of natural materials. The PIs intend to incorporate ICP-MS lab exercises in a number of courses, one of which would include heavy metal analysis of drinking water samples retrieved from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where current public use of polluted water supplies is associated with high infant mortality. Co-PI Kadima intends to work with the government of the Congo to improve public water use practices based on analysis of experimental data obtained with the requested ICP-MS. ***