MRI: Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma- Mass Spectrometry (ICP MS) for elemental concentration and speciation analysis at Montclair State University

该奖项将允许购买电感耦合等离子体质谱仪（ICP-MS），以加强研究活动，实践教育和分析培训。收购具有上级分析能力的现代ICP-MS将增强蒙特克莱尔州立大学快速增长的学生人口的研究资源（本科生人口60%为女性，20%为少数民族）。ICP-MS将由科学与数学学院，教育与人类服务学院（CEHS）和人文与社会科学学院（CHSS）的跨学科研究项目共享。 科学与数学学院的教师积极让本科生和研究生参与他们的实地和实验室研究项目，这些项目遍布美国，南美，欧洲，亚洲和南极洲。 将受益于这一工具的项目包括污染物识别和环境修复、岩石学和火山学研究、基于土壤和沉积物化学的气候研究、水质研究、食品质量和食品安全研究以及通过元素指纹追踪建筑材料的考古学调查。

This award will permit the acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS) to enhance research activities, hands-on education, and analytical training. Acquisition of a modern ICP-MS with superior analytical capabilities will enhance the research resources for the rapidly increasing student population at Montclair State University (undergraduate population 60% women and 20% minorities). The ICP-MS will be shared by interdisciplinary research programs in the College of Science and Mathematics, College of Education and Human Services (CEHS), and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS). The faculty of the College of Science and Mathematics actively involve undergraduate and graduate students in their field-based and laboratory-based research programs, which take place across the United Sates, South American, Europe, Asia, and Antarctica. Projects that will benefit from this instrument include contaminant identification and environmental remediation, petrology and volcanology studies, climate studies based on soil and sediment chemistry, water quality studies, food quality and food security studies, and archeological investigations that track building materials through their elemental fingerprints.