MRI: Acquisition of a Dionex Accelerated Solvent Extractor for Biogeochemistry, Toxicology, and Marine Science Research at Hawaii Pacific University

该奖项资助了Dionex加速溶剂萃取（ASE）系统的收购，以提高教师和学生的研究机会，并改善HPU的教学基础设施。ASE系统将用于由NSF和其他机构资助的各种活跃的研究项目，这些项目需要频繁使用ASE设备来提取脂质、环境污染物和天然代谢产物。该仪器将用于许多不同的项目，包括（a）从深埋的Shimokita煤层中分离的嗜压细菌在脂质生物合成中的碳同位素分馏（B）评估Kawai 'nui沼泽生态系统的历史变化;（c）量度野生海豚因压力而产生的荷尔蒙，作为环境对海豚种群的负面影响的指标;（d）发展天然产品化学资料库;及（e）量度海洋脊椎动物组织内的有机污染物。HPU目前正在从一个主要的本科，非博士过渡。授予教学机构成为一个综合性大学与强大的研究计划，这种国家的最先进的仪器将有助于促进这一转变。博士后研究助理和硕士研究生和本科生将接受仪器使用培训。夏威夷太平洋大学（HPU）是一个少数民族服务的本科研究机构在夏威夷岛上的一个国家与几个中心的高等教育在夏威夷相比，美国大陆。HPU学生人口包括当地夏威夷土著人以及来夏威夷接受大学教育的太平洋岛民的重要代表。因此，该仪器的资金将对生物学，生物化学，海洋生物学和海洋学等领域的研究和教育的多样化学生群体产生广泛影响。

This award funds the acquisition of a Dionex Accelerated Solvent Extraction (ASE) system to enhance faculty and student research opportunities and to improve teaching infrastructure at HPU. The ASE system will be used in a variety of active research projects funded by NSF and other agencies which require frequent use of ASE equipment for extraction of lipids, environmental contaminants, and natural metabolic products. The instrument will be used for a number of diverse projects including (a) carbon isotope fractionation in lipid biosynthesis by piezophilic bacteria isolated from the deeply buried Shimokita Coalbed (1498.48 and 2406.84 meter below the seafloor) in the northwest Pacific; (b) assessing historical changes in Kawai`nui marsh ecosystem; (c) measuring stress-induced hormones in wild dolphins as an indicator of negative environmental impacts on dolphin populations (d) the development of natural product chemical libraries; and (e) measuring organic contaminants in tissues of marine vertebrates. HPU is currently in transition from a predominantly undergraduate, non-Ph.D. granting teaching institution into a comprehensive university with a strong research program, and such state-of-the-art instrumentation will help facilitate this transition. Postdoctoral research associates and M.S. graduate and undergraduate students will be trained on the use of the instrument. Hawaii Pacific University (HPU) is a minority serving undergraduate research institution on the Island of Oahu in a state with few centers of higher learning in Hawaii compared with the continental United States. The HPU student population includes significant representation by local native Hawaiians as well as Pacific Islanders that come to Hawaii for a college education. Hence the funding of this instrumentation will have broad impacts on a diverse student population in research and education in fields such as Biology, Biochemistry, Marine Biology and Oceanography.