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

核磁共振基金将用于购买多收集器电感耦合质谱仪（MC-ICP-MS），这将是在新墨西哥州立大学（NMSU）建立MC-ICP-MS实验室的关键设备。该奖项利用美国国家科学基金会基金、州基金和私人捐赠，建立一个地区、国家和国际认可和利用的多学科设施，以支持一系列当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、工程和化学等领域的科学探究。除了扩大新密歇根州立大学的研究基础设施外，新密歇根州立大学还将引入新的跨学科学位选择，增加学生的研究机会。西班牙裔教育机构的研究生和本科生将有机会获得使用现代质谱技术的宝贵实践经验，并重新组建合格的用户库，以管理国内和国际新建立的实验室。来自科学领域代表性不足群体的pi、高级人员和学生将获得使用现代设备并扩大其研究兴趣和结果影响的新机会。

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.