Ultra-trace laboratory for legacy and emerging contaminants

该应用程序用于购买用于制备环境样品（水，雪，动物和植物组织，微生物，土壤，气溶胶）的系统，用于对传统和新兴污染物进行超痕量分析的新多学科平台，该平台将于2019年夏季在蒙特利尔大学的新科学大楼内提供。该系统将允许小样品的精确称重，在超净气氛下制备消解溶液和标准溶液，以及样品的高温高压消解。如果没有这一准备系统，该平台将拥有的高性能分析设施将无法有效使用，从而影响研究生的培训。将使用该系统的团队由6名研究人员组成，他们提供丰富的多学科研究计划，在大气化学，水生和陆地生物地球化学和生态毒理学的交叉点，来自蒙特利尔大学和麦吉尔大学的4个部门。这些研究人员是各自领域的积极领导者，在过去22个月内发表了90篇文章，包括《科学》、《自然地球科学》和《科学报告》。如果没有所要求的系统，将其中5个转移到新的科学大楼将导致更少的高端仪器进入新的平台。这组研究人员非常积极地培训高素质的人员，在过去6年中在协作和多学科环境中培训了288人。有了这个系统，我们预计大约有20名研究生将立即强烈使用新的分析平台。任何拖延都将导致这一大批高素质人员的研究和培训活动放慢。

This application is for the purchase of a system for the preparation of environmental samples (water, snow, animal and plant tissues, microorganisms, soils, aerosols) for a new multidisciplinary platform for the ultra-trace analysis of legacy and emergent contaminants that will be available during Summer 2019, in a new Science building at Université de Montréal. This system will allow precise weighing of small samples, the preparation of solutions of digestion and of standards under ultra-clean atmosphere, and the high temperature, high pressure digestion of samples. Without this preparation system, the high performance analytical facility that the platform will host will not be efficiently usable, with consequences for the training of graduate students.******The team that will use this system is formed of 6 researchers offering a rich and multidisciplinary research program, at the intersection of atmospheric chemistry, aquatic and terrestrial biogeochemistry and ecotoxicology, and coming from 4 departments at Université de Montréal and McGill University. These researchers are active leaders in their fields, with 90 published articles in the last 22 months, including papers in Science, Nature Geoscience et Scientific Reports. Without the requested system, the transfer of 5 of them in the new Science building will result in a lower access to their high-end instruments that will be moved in the new platform.******This group of researchers is very active in training highly qualified personnel, having trained 288 persons in the last 6 years in a collaborative and multidisciplinary environment. With this system, we anticipate that around 20 graduate students will immediately and intensely use the new analytical platform. Any delay will result in the slowdown of research and training activities for this large cohort of highly qualified personnel.**