Early Career: Technician Support for an organic and stable isotope biogeochemistry laboratory focused on climate and water-related natural hazards

该项目将资助一名全职技术人员在布法罗大学生物地球化学实验室工作三年。首席研究员是一名早期职业地球科学家，他将进行研究，重点是了解与气候变化相关的水资源可用性变化机制。该实验室通过检查记录过去环境条件的微小地球化学特征的沉积物来重建过去的气候。这些研究将对来自世界各地的样本进行，包括温带地区，那里有大量人口和粮食生产，以及北极系统，那里的海冰损失将影响降水，进而影响冰盖和海平面上升。研究结果对干旱，洪水，极端风暴事件和冰盖质量损失的规划具有重要的社会意义。 该项目将加强主要研究者与布法罗奥杜邦协会在教育和推广方面的伙伴关系，其中包括一个公民科学家计划活动，用于收集每周沉积物和降水样本。布法罗大学全职技术人员三年的资助将立即提高早期职业地球科学家的研究生产力，并为长期的研究奠定基础。长期支持该立场。该技术员将受雇于主要研究员的有机和稳定同位素生物地球化学实验室，该实验室拥有最先进的设备，可用于以高空间和时间分辨率进行样品提取、制备和分析。该实验室的研究目标是为与气候变化相关的水相关变化提供史前背景和机械理解。干旱、洪水、极端风暴事件和冰盖质量损失等潜在有害后果具有重大的社会和环境意义，因为它们影响到生态系统的稳定、水电和农业生产以及冰盖和海平面上升。实验室的研究能力的增加，使更多的活动，在教育和推广伙伴关系与布法罗奥杜邦协会，其中包括教学有关纽约的冰川和气候历史的不同群体，涉及样本收集学龄夏令营团体，参加职业日，暴露年轻人到广泛的环境职业，并分析样本从公民科学计划。

This project will fund a full-time technician for three years in the Biogeochemistry Laboratory at the University at Buffalo. The principal investigator is an early-career geoscientist who will conduct research focused on understanding mechanisms of changes in water availability related to climate variability. The laboratory reconstructs past climate by examining sediments that record minute geochemical signatures of past environmental conditions. The studies will be conducted on samples from all around the world, including temperate regions, where large populations and food production occur, and the Arctic system, where sea ice loss will affect precipitation and in turn affect ice sheets and sea level rise. The research results have important societal implications for planning for droughts, floods, extreme storm events, and ice sheet mass loss. The project will enhance the principal investigator's partnership with the Buffalo Audubon Society for education and outreach, which includes a citizen-scientist program activity for the collection of weekly sediment and precipitation samples.The funding of a full-time technician at the University at Buffalo for three years will immediately increase the research productivity of an early-career geoscientist and establish the basis for long-term support for the position. The technician will be employed in the principal investigator's Organic and Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry Laboratory, which contains state-of-the-art equipment for sample extraction, preparation, and analysis at high spatial and temporal resolution. The laboratory's research goal is to provide prehistorical context for and mechanistic understanding of water-related changes associated with climate change. Potentially harmful consequences, such as droughts, floods, extreme storm events, and ice sheet mass loss, are of high societal and environmental significance, as they affect ecosystem stability, hydroelectric and agricultural production, and ice sheets and sea level rise. The increased research capacity of the laboratory enables more activities in the education and outreach partnership with the Buffalo Audubon Society, which includes teaching diverse groups about the glacial and climate history of New York, involving school-age summer camp groups in sample collection, participating in career days that expose young adults to a broad range of environmental careers, and analyzing samples from a citizen-science program.