FSML: Acquisition of an ICP-MS to Expand/Update Trace Element Analytical Capacity for the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography

向斯基德韦海洋研究所提供了一笔赠款，用于购买一台新的电感耦合等离子质谱仪(ICPMS)，用于环境样品的微量元素分析。这一新工具包括的技术远远优于它将取代的现有ICPMS的技术。这将对研究产生明显的影响。它在操作和维护方面更具成本效益，并与许多样品引入方法兼容，在痕量元素分析方面提供了更多的多样性，并扩大了可在沿海海洋基质中定量的分析物的数量。由于该仪器更便于使用，它将加强对学生以及技术人员和同事的应用培训，这反过来将提高他们对该技术的了解，并鼓励他们使用该技术。斯基德韦海洋研究所(SKIO)提供了包括考察船、仪器齐全的实验室和住房在内的设施，以支持其常驻教职员工，而且还为来自国家、地区和国际机构的访问科学家和学生提供了支持海洋研究的设施。在过去的45年里，SKIO为东南大西洋沿岸的多学科、多机构在微量元素研究和教育方面的合作提供了后勤支持。正如该奖项所表明的那样，研究所致力于升级和维护分析仪器，这确保它将继续促进以河流、河口和大陆架环境为重点的痕量元素研究和教育。这些努力既涉及影响沿海系统中微量元素运输和循环的自然过程，也涉及人为干预。有关SKIO设施和研究的更多信息，请访问http://www.skio.usg.edu/.。

A grant is awarded to the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography to acquire a new inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICPMS) for trace element analysis of environmental samples. This new instrument includes technology far superior to that of the existing ICPMS it will replace. The impact on research that this will have is obvious. It is more cost efficient regarding operation and maintenance and it is compatible with a number of sample introduction methodologies, providing more versatility in trace element analysis and expanding the number of analytes that can be quantified in coastal marine matrices. Because of the more user-friendly nature of the instrumentation it will enhance training of students, as well as technicians and colleagues, in its application, which in turn, will improve their understanding of the technology, and encourage their use of it.The Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO) has provided facilities including research vessels, well instrumented laboratories and housing to support marine research for not only its resident faculty and staff, but also for visiting scientists and students from state, regional and international institutions. Over the past 45 years SkIO has provided logistical support for multidiscipline, multi-institution collaborations in trace element research and education along the southeastern Atlantic coast. The Institute's commitment to upgrading and maintaining analytical instrumentation, as demonstrated by this award, assures that it will continue to catalyze trace element research and education focused on riverine, estuarine and continental shelf environments. These efforts address both natural processes and human interventions that influence trace element transport and cycling in coastal systems. More information about SkIO facilities and research can be found at http://www.skio.usg.edu/.