Acquistion of ICP Spectrographic Facilities for Geologic and Environmental Studies

作为学术研究基础设施（ARI）计划的一部分，这笔拨款为密苏里-堪萨斯城大学（UMKC）地球科学系购买电感耦合等离子体质谱计（ICP- MS）和外围用品提供了13.9万美元的部分支持。该仪器将支持几个学术部门的研究和教学，并将允许获取60多种感兴趣的化学元素的高质量光谱数据，包括硅酸盐岩石和土壤的所有主要成分以及地质和环境科学以及材料和化学科学特别关注的次要和微量成分。ICP-MS将是UMKC校园内唯一可用的光谱设备，将用于许多调查，包括：(1)中西部黑色页岩中金属的分布，(2)中西部天然富金属页岩对地下水的污染，(3)危险废物场的地质，(4)环境因素对建筑石料的侵蚀，(5)太平洋西北地区第四纪盆地和洪积湖的古气候，(6)硫化铁矿物的成因，(7)中国寒武纪页岩中独特层状镍钼矿床的成因，(8)中西部乡村岩石中的铅锌矿化；(9)原子力显微镜对大型有机分子所含杂质的成像；（10）骨骼和牙齿的组成。来自5个院系的8名教师需要这些设备进行研究和教学。在UMKC建立这个ICP-MS实验室将促进教师的研究，同时允许UMKC的学生熟练掌握现代光谱技术。该实验室将成为培训UMKC城市环境地质学专业的硕士学生、UMKC创新跨学科博士项目的学生、UMKC其他科学专业的研究生以及物理和环境科学专业的本科生的重要资源。＊＊＊

9512427 Coveney This grant, as part of the Academic Research Infrastructure(ARI) program, provides $139,000 as partial support of the costs acquiring an inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP- MS) and peripheral supplies for the Department of Geosciences at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). This instrument will support research and teaching within several academic departments at and will permit the acquisition of high-quality spectrographic data for more than 60 chemical elements of interest, including all major components of silicate rocks and soils and minor and trace constituents of particular concern to the geological and environmental sciences as well as to the material and chemical sciences. The ICP-MS will be the only spectrographic equipment available on the UMKC campus and will be used in numerous investigations including: (1) the distributions of metals in black shales in the Midwest, (2) groundwater contamination from naturally metal-rich shales in the Midwest, (3) the geology of hazardous waste sites, (4) deterioration of building stones by environmental agents, (5) paleoclimates related to Quaternary basins and pluvial lakes in the Pacific Northwest, (6) the genesis of iron sulfide minerals, (7) the origins of uniquely bedded Ni-Mo deposits in Cambrian shales from China, (8) lead-zinc mineralization in country rocks of the Midwest, (9) impurities held by large organic molecules being imaged by atomic force microscopy and (10) compositions of bones and teeth. Eight faculty, drawn from five academic departments, have needs for this equipment for research and teaching. The establishment of this ICP-MS laboratory at UMKC will facilitate research by faculty while, at the same time, permitting UMKC students to become proficient in a modern spectrometric technique. The lab will be an essential resource for the training of M.S. students enrolled in the Urban Environmental Geology program at UMKC, as well as for students from the UMKC's innovative interdisciplinary Ph.D. program, for graduate students from the other sciences at UMKC, and for undergraduates from the physical and environmental sciences. ***