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

磁共振成像资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NSF基金、州基金和私人捐赠，建立一个地区、国家和国际公认和使用的多学科设施，支持一系列目前得到资助和未来合作的项目，涵盖地球科学的广泛研究，并培训高素质的人员来填补美国各地未来的技术职位。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、工程和化学领域的科学研究。除了扩展NMSU的研究基础设施外，NMSU引入的新的跨学科学位选项将增加内部和外部学生的研究机会。在为拉美裔服务的教育机构的研究生和本科生将有机会利用现代质谱学技术获得宝贵的实践经验，并重组合格的用户池，以运营新成立的国内和国际实验室。PIS、高级人员和来自科学界代表性不足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成果的影响。

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.