Integration of Analytical Chemistry into Environmental Programs at Alfred University

环境研究、地质学、化学和生物学本科课程的分析方面可以通过原子吸收分光光度分析和离子色谱的现代仪器得到显著加强。这些仪器正在几门课程中使用，为跨学科课程环境生物地球化学的实地和实验室活动奠定了基础。学生主导的课堂项目包括使用新仪器来回答有关降雨成分、树干径流、地表径流、水库负荷和排放、地下水、土壤、沉积物等问题的分析。这些仪器还被用于一个大型且不断扩大的本科生科学研究项目，在该项目中，许多学生的项目依赖于环境分析来回答基本和应用问题。

Analytical aspects of undergraduate courses in environmental studies, geology, chemistry, and biology can be substantially strengthened with contemporary instrumentation for atomic absorption spectrophotometry and ion chromatography. These instruments are being used in several courses, providing the basis for field and laboratory activities in the interdisciplinary course, Environmental Biogeochemistry. Student-conducted class projects involve application of assays using the new instruments to answer questions about constituency of rainfall, stem flow, surface runoff, reservoir loading and discharge, ground waters, soils, sediments, etc. The instruments are also being used in a large and expanding undergraduate scientific research program in which many students' projects rely on environmental analyses to answer both basic and applied questions.