MRI: Acquisition of a MC-ICP-MS at NMSU

MRI资金将用于购买多收集器电感耦合质谱仪（MC-ICP-MS），该设备对于在新墨西哥州州立大学（NMSU）建立MC-ICP-MS实验室至关重要。该奖项利用NSF基金，国家基金和私人礼物来建立一个区域，国家和国际认可和利用的多学科设施，该设施将支持一系列目前资助和未来的合作项目，涵盖广泛的地球科学研究，并培养高素质的人才，以填补美国未来的技术职位。该实验室将专注于应用于地质科学的尖端地球化学技术，但这些相同的技术将加强生物学，野生动物和保护科学，植物和土壤科学，工程和化学领域的科学探究。 除了扩大NMSU的研究基础设施，无论是内部和外部的学生研究机会将与NMSU引入新的跨学科学位选项增强。 在西班牙裔服务教育机构的研究生和本科生将有机会获得宝贵的实践经验，使用现代质谱技术，并重建合格的用户池，在国内和国际上运行新建立的实验室。 PI，高级人员和来自科学领域代表性不足的群体的学生将获得使用现代设备的新机会，并扩大他们的研究兴趣和结果的影响。

MRI funds will be used to acquire a multi-collector inductively coupled mass spectrometer (MC-ICP-MS), equipment that will be critical to establishing a MC-ICP-MS laboratory at New Mexico State University (NMSU). This award leverages NSF funds, state funds, and a private gift to build a regionally, nationally, and internationally recognized and utilized, multi-disciplinary facility that will support a range of currently funded and future collaborative projects spanning a wide range of research in the earth sciences, and train highly qualified personnel to fill future technical positions across the US. The lab will focus on cutting-edge geochemical techniques applied to the geological sciences but these same techniques will enhance scientific inquiry in the fields of biology, wildlife and conservation science, plant and soil science, engineering, and chemistry. In addition to expanding the research infrastructure of NMSU, both in- and out-of-house student research opportunities will be enhanced with new interdisciplinary degree options introduced at NMSU. Graduate and undergraduate students at a Hispanic serving educational institution will have opportunities to gain invaluable hands-on experience using modern mass spectrometry techniques and reconstitute the pool of well-qualified users to run newly established labs nationally and internationally. PIs, senior personnel, and students from underrepresented groups in the sciences will gain new opportunities to use modern equipment and expand their research interests and impact of results.