"Feasibility of Utilizing Optical Fibers for Multicon- taminant Monitoring of Unsaturated Environmental Systems"

这一奖项是为了支持在地下水污染物监测系统中使用光纤的可行性工作。这项工作是基于研究人员以前开发的一种光学电极，该光学电极利用化学媒介来检测和监测极性有机物质的水溶液。在该项目中，调查者计划设计一种适用于饱和和非饱和(气相)条件的光路和光谱系统，并确定其在地下水污染物运动调查中的潜在适用性。导致该项目的提案是为了响应NSF 90-121、研究规划补助金和女性科学家和工程师职业发展奖而提交的。拟议的工作涉及进行一项研究规划拨款。它响应了NSF正在做出的努力，以帮助增加参与NSF支持的研究计划的新女性调查人员的数量，并促进开展初步研究和其他可能导致竞争性研究发展的活动之前没有获得过独立联邦研究资金的女性所做的项目。

This is an award to support work on the feasibility of using optical fibers in a system for monitoring of groundwater pollutants. The work is based on previous development by the investigator of an optrode that utilized a chemical intermediary to detect and monitor water solutions of polar organic substances. In this project, the investigator plans to devise an optrode and spectroscopic system for both saturated and unsaturated (vapor phase) conditions and to determine its potential applicability in survey of the movement of groundwater pollutants. The proposal leading to this project was submitted in response to NSF 90-121, Research Planning Grants and Career Advancement Awards for Women Scientists and Engineers. The proposed work involves the conduct of a research planning grant. It is responsive to the effort NSF is making to assist in increasing the number of new women investigators participating in NSF's supported research programs and to facilitate the conduct of preliminary studies and other activities that are likely to result in the development of competitive research projects by women who have not previously had independent Federal research funding.