Trent University water quality centre

特伦特大学的Worsold水质中心(WWQC)是一个综合的多学科设施，在环境化学研究中使用最先进的分析仪器。该中心的重点是利用质谱学的方法；该中心的用户对环境分析的新方法以及这些方法在自然环境中的应用进行研究。该设施结合了无机化学和有机化学领域的能力，使研究人员能够研究非常广泛的问题和许多特定的污染物。这种设备能力的多样性，以及与该中心合作的许多大学和研究所的研究人员的多样性，使WWQC独一无二。尽管该中心专注于水质问题，但这些设施对其他领域的科学家也很有价值，包括地质学、生物化学、生物学、人类学和陆地生态学。该中心正在进行的研究类型的一些例子包括：从废水处理设施释放药物的研究；大气中含氟污染物的研究；环境中微量金属污染物的循环；进入我们湖泊的各种汞来源的相对重要性；微生物过程对产生温室气体的作用；以及开发测量环境中放射性元素的新方法。

The Worsfold Water Quality Centre (WWQC) at Trent University is an integrated multidisciplinary facility that utilizes state-of-the-art analytical instrumentation in the study of environmental chemistry. The Centre focuses on methods that utilize mass spectrometry; users of the Centre conduct research on both new methods for environmental analysis and applications of these methods in the natural environment. The facility combines capabilities in both the inorganic and organic chemistry fields, allowing the researchers to study a very wide range of issues and many specific contaminants. This diversity in capability of the equipment, and the diversity of the researchers from the many universities and institutes who collaborate with the Centre, make the WWQC unique. Although the Centre focuses on water quality issues, the facilities are valuable to scientists from other fields including geology, biochemistry, biology, anthropology and terrestrial ecology. Some examples of the types of research being undertaken at the Centre include the study of the release of pharmaceuticals from waste water treatment facilities, the study of fluorine-containing contaminants in the atmosphere, the cycling of trace metal contaminants in the environment, the relative importance of various sources of mercury entering our lakes, the role of microbial processes on the production of greenhouse gases and development of new methods to measure radioactive elements in the environment.