Technician Support: Stable Isotope Laboratory at the University of Tennessee

这笔赠款将为田纳西-诺克斯维尔大学稳定同位素实验室的一名实验室技术员提供三年的部分工资支持。这是仪器和设施(IF)计划下的第一阶段技术人员支持补助金。稳定同位素技术员将负责同位素比质谱仪和真空提取流水线的日常维护和操作，帮助开发和保持适当的分析技术，并为实验室用户提供质量指导，包括本科生和研究生以及其他大学的研究人员。这位技术人员的支持将使P.I.和UTK的其他教员能够更积极地参与他们对土壤和古土壤、植物-土壤相互作用、前寒武纪碳酸盐、流体-岩石相互作用和蝙蝠生态学的研究，加强地质科学和几个学科的研究和教育活动。这最终将扩大实验室的业务支持基础，并增加实验室中由国家(即大学)资助的永久职位的机构价值。***

0004104MoraThis grant will provide three years partial salary support for a laboratory technician in the stable isotope laboratory at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. This is a Phase I technician support grant under the Instrumentation and Facilities (IF) Program. The stable isotope technician will provide routine maintenance and operation of the isotope ratio mass spectrometers and vacuum extraction lines, help to develop and maintain proper analytical technique, and provide quality instruction to laboratory users, including undergraduate and graduate students and researchers from other universities. Support of this technician will permit more active research engagement of the P.I. and other UTK faculty in their research on soils and paleosols, plant-soil interaction, Precambrian carbonates, fluid-rock interaction, and bat ecology, enhancing research and educational activities within the geological sciences and across several disciplines. This will ultimately broaden the base of operational support for the lab and increase the institutional value of a permanent, state (i.e., University)-funded position in the lab. ***