Acquisition of the Next-Generation Magnetic-Sector Inductively-Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer

9905436约翰逊该合同提供部分资金，用于购买威斯康星大学地质和地球物理系安装和运行的磁扇区电感耦合质谱仪。威斯康星大学致力于为此次收购提供配套资金。该仪器将主要用于研究生命的起源和演化，极端环境(地球和其他行星环境)中的生命，天然水化学和污染，以及地壳和地幔的演化和组成的基础研究。所有这些研究应用都需要新仪器系统的特殊能力，以快速和准确地分析未知成分样品中极低浓度水平的纳克量同位素和微量元素。*

9905436Johnson This award provides partial funding for the acquisition of a magnetic-sector inductively-coupled mass spectrometer to be installed and operated in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin. The University of Wisconsin is committed to providing matching funds for the acquisition. The instrument will be used mainly in research including studies of the origin and evolution of life, life in extreme environments (on Earth and other planetary environments), natural water chemistry and contamination, and basic research on the evolution and composition of the earth's crust and mantle. All these research applications require the special capabilities of the new instrument system to rapidly and precisely analyze nanogram quantities of isotopes and trace elements at extremely low concentration levels in samples of unknown compositions.***