Multi-Kollektor-ICPMS (MC-ICPMS)

在过去的15年里，多接收器电感耦合等离子体质谱（MC-ICPMS）在世界各地的实验室中的广泛引入有助于分析能力的快速扩展。这导致了科学界许多引人注目的重大发现。因此，它已成为众多科学学科中同位素研究的支柱，如地球和行星科学，环境研究以及古生物学。在Geowissenschaftliches Zentrum Göttingen（GZG）以及自然地理和温带生态系统土壤科学两个部门开展的排名第一和国际公认的科学反映了研究的广度，真正受益于直接使用这种设备。尽管GZG拥有广泛的科学和分析专业知识来操作和充分利用MC-ICPMS仪器，但目前哥廷根校区没有这样的设施。在这里，来自六个不同研究部门和三个研究中心的知名学者组成的联盟已经确定了对这种设备的需求，因此建议在GZG安装下一代MC-ICPMS设施。直接现场访问MC-ICPMS将确保当前的研究承诺能够得到履行。哥廷根大学的MC-ICPMS设施-用于本文提出的多样性和各种研究主题-不仅具有协同效应，而且还将为未来开发新的跨学科研究主题提供自然动力。

Over the past 15 years, the widespread introduction of multi-collector inductively couple plasma mass spectrometry (MC-ICPMS) in laboratories world-wide has contributed to a rapid expansion of analytical capabilities. This has led to a number of remarkable, high-profile discoveries in Science. It has thus become a mainstay of isotope research in a multitude of scientific disciplines, such as Earth and Planetary sciences, Environmental research as well as Palaeontology. The top-ranked and internationally recognised science carried out at the Geowissenschaftliches Zentrum Göttingen (GZG), and the two departments of Physical Geography and Soil Sciences of Temperate Ecosystems reflects the breadth of research that truly benefits from having direct access to such a device. Although extensive scientific as well as analytical expertise exists at the GZG to operate and fully exploit the use of a MC-ICPMS instrument, no such facility currently exists at the Göttingen Campus. Here, a consortium of high-profile academics from six different research departments and from across three research centres have identified the need for such a device and thus propose the installation of a next-generation MC-ICPMS facility at the GZG. Direct on-site access to a MC-ICPMS will ensure that current research commitments can be fulfilled. A MC-ICPMS facility at the University of Göttingen – used for such a diversity and variety of research topics as herein proposed – will not only have a synergetic effect but will also provide the natural impetus for developing novel and interdisciplinary research themes of the future.