Undergraduate Equipment for Applying Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis to Environmental Monitoring

海洋科学部最近开发了一个区域， 海洋分析技术（MAT）的重点，其目的是 培养环境技术人员。 特别强调了 获得所需的组织和分析技能， 监测环境质量和评估污染物的影响。 这项赠款提供资金购买测量所需的设备， 各种联邦政府认可的优先一级污染物使用方法 经环境保护局批准。 设备 需要一台气相色谱仪进行农药、多氯联苯和多环芳烃分析， 用于重金属分析的石墨炉，以及用于 石油碳氢化合物指纹 后两件 设备是现有设备的附件，即原子能 吸收分光光度计和红外分光光度计， 分别 这些机器将用于实验室课程 在MAT程序所需的，以及在选修课程和 本科生独立研究项目。 越来越多的环境管理正在进行 在这个国家和世界范围内，保证了对井大量持续需求 训练有素的环境技术人员。 因此，该项目具有重要意义， 它支持一个明确设计的项目， 可在培训期间获得的适销对路的科学/技术技能 本科的那些年 受资助机构与NSF相匹配 从非联邦来源获得的金额略高的奖励。

This Marine Science Department recently developed an area of emphasis in Marine Analytical Technology (MAT), the aim of which is to produce environmental technicians. Particular emphasis has been given to acquisition of organizational and analytical skills needed to monitor environmental quality and to assess the impacts of pollutants. This grant provides funds to purchase equipment needed to measure a variety of federally-recognized Priority One Pollutants using methods approved by the Environmental Protection Agency. The equipment required is a gas chromatograph for pesticide, PCB and PAH analysis, a graphite furnace for heavy metal analysis, and a silica cell for petroleum-hydrocarbon fingerprinting. The latter two pieces of equipment are accessories to equipment already on hand, i.e. an atomic absorption spectrophotometer and an infrared spectrophotometer, respectively. The machines will be used in laboratory courses required in the MAT program, as well as in elective courses and in undergraduate independent research projects. The increasing amounts of environmental management being conducted in this country and worldwide assure a large ongoing demand for well trained environmental technicians. Thus this project is significant in that it supports a program expressly designed to teach students highly marketable science/technology-based skills that can be acquired during the undergraduate years. The grantee institution is matching the NSF award with a slightly greater sum obtained from non-Federal sources.