Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass- Spectrometer (ICP-MS)

Schilling 9413712该奖项通过学术研究基础设施计划为罗得岛大学购买电感耦合等离子体质谱仪（ICP-MS）作为建立分析设施的基础提供支持。 这一分析设施为大气和海洋化学、海洋和陆地地质学以及环境科学的研究人员提供了所需的地理集中能力。 具体而言，研究所打算研究洋中脊热点火山活动和地幔地球化学、海洋微量金属清除和相关粒子动力学、古环境、大气微量金属地球化学以及陆地和海洋沉积学和地球化学。 ICP-MS仪器非常适合所提出的分析，因为它提供了更高的效率和元素分析的灵敏度，并消除了在分析之前进行大量样品制备的需要。 该仪器将特别作为分析设施的核心，作为新分析的试验台，教师，研究人员和学生的培训资产，也作为邻近新英格兰大学和研究中心的研究人员可访问的区域分析资源。 罗得岛大学将为该项目提供50%的费用分摊。 ***

Schilling 9413712 This award provides support, through the Academic Research Infrastructure Program, for the acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass-Spectrometer (ICP-MS) as the basis for the establishment of an analytical facility at the University of Rhode Island. This analytical facility provides a needed and geographically centralized capability for researchers in atmospheric and ocean chemistry, marine and terrestrial geology and environmental science. Specifically, the PIs intend to study mid-ocean ridge hotspot volcanism and mantle geochemistry, oceanic trace metal scavenging and related particle dynamics, paleoenvironments, atmospheric trace metal geochemistry, and terrestrial and marine sedimentology and geochemistry. ICP-MS instrumentation is well suited to the proposed analyses because it provides increased efficiency and sensitivity for elemental analysis and negates the need for extensive sample preparation prior to analysis. The instrument will serve, particularly as the core of an analytical facility, as a test bed for new analyses, a training asset for faculty, researchers and students, and also as a regional analytical resource accessible to researchers from neighboring New England universities and research centers. The University of Rhode Island will provide 50% cost sharing for this project. ***