Undergraduate Laboratory Equipment for an Environmental Monitoring Technology Program

该项目的目标是开发一种新的技术， 采用最先进方法的环境监测课程 和技术。 包括在通过本协议提供的设备中 奖励是气相色谱仪/质谱仪（GC/MS），单独GC， 高效液相色谱仪（HPLC）、原子吸收光谱仪 光谱仪（AA）和一个现代化的计算机连接的气象站。 与 在这个设备的帮助下，学生学习程序， 分析室内和室外空气、水、土壤 以及动物和人体组织中存在的环境 农业和林业杀虫剂产生的污染物， 危险废物和工业排放。 由此产生的新 课程，由该机构的优秀计算机设施的支持， 为现有的BS提供技术重点。环境研究 使新的匿名戒酒会的成立成为可能。程度 环境监测技术。 该项目解决了国家日益增长的对有能力的 污染和有害物质控制技术人员，提供 为北方缅因州的环境实验室提供熟练的人力， 为经济不景气的人提供向上流动的机会 圣约翰谷的主要是法裔美国人（印第安人） 在北方缅因州的机构服务。 受赠机构正在将NSF奖项与同等奖项相匹配 从非联邦来源获得的金额。

The project's aim is the development of a new technical curriculum in environmental monitoring using state-of-the-art methods and technologies. Included in the equipment provided through this award are a gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer (GC/MS), a separate GC, a high performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC), an atomic absorption spectrometer (AA), and a modern, computer-linked weather station. With the help of this equipment, students learn the procedures and principles involved in analyzing indoor and outdoor air, water, soil, and animal and human tissue for the presence of environmental contaminants resulting from agricultural and forestry pesticides, hazardous wastes, and industrial emissions. The resulting new curriculum, backed by the institution's excellent computer facilities, gives a technical focus to the existing B.S. in Environmental Studies Program and makes possible the institution of a new A.A. degree program in Environmental Monitoring Technology. The project addresses the nation's growing need for competent pollution and hazardous substances control technicians, provides skilled manpower for Northern Maine's environmental laboratories, and affords opportunities for upward mobility to the economically depressed predominantly French-American (Acadian) people of the St. John Valley in Northern Maine which the institution serves. The grantee institution is matching the NSF award with an equal sum obtained from non-Federal sources.