Early Career: Acquisition of Shared, Basic Biogeochemistry Lab Facilities at Rice University

masielo该奖项为美国国家科学基金会提供为期36个月的资金，用于在赖斯大学进行碳和养分循环研究的基本生物地球化学仪器。购买并安装cnso固体样品分析仪和总碳分析仪。几个研究项目将使用所需的仪器套件：土壤黑碳（BC）池稳定性和裂解分析；天然硅酸铝纳米颗粒对土壤碳和养分循环的影响基于碳和养分分布的全新世南极半岛沉积物古气候和古生产力指标；以及生态系统养分循环研究，以评估墨西哥湾沿岸的恢复和缓解工作。除了pi的研究项目外，这些设备还将支持更高水平的环境化学实验室课程。通过莱斯生物和环境纳米技术中心申请资助两名高中教师参加暑期项目。该仪器将主要由PI管理，但将置于赖斯共享设备管理局之下，以确保长期维护。在奖励的第一年后，将编制和评估使用统计数据，以制定合理的成本回收用户费用。***

0949337MasielloThis award provides NSF funding over 36 months to acquire basic biogeochemistry instrumentation for carbon and nutrient cycling studies at Rice. A CHNSO solid sample analyzer and a total carbon analyzer will be purchased and installed. Several research projects would utilize the requested instrument suite: soil black carbon (BC) pool stability and pryolysis analysis; natural aluminosilicate nanoparticles impacts on carbon and nutrient cycling in soils; paleoclimate and paleo-productivity indicators in Holocene Antarctic Peninsula (AP) sediments using carbon and nutrient distributions; and ecosystem nutrient cycling studies to evalute Gulf coast restoration and mitigation efforts. The equipment, in addition to the PIs' research projects, will support an upper level environmental chemistry lab course. Funds are requested to sponsor two high school teachers for a summer program through the Rice Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology. The instrumentation will be primarily administered by the PI but will placed under the Rice Shared Equipment Authority which will ensure long-term maintenance. Use statistics will be compiled and evaluated for setting reasonable cost-recovery user fees after the first year of the award.***