Technician Support: ICP-MS Facility at UMD

这笔补助金为一名技术人员提供两年的部分工资支持，让他在马里兰大学地质系的电感耦合等离子体质谱仪实验室工作。这是仪器和设施计划下的第二阶段技术员支持奖，之前三年的第一阶段支持(EAR-9711008)是在PI在哈佛大学时授予的。PI的Rudnick和McDonough在哈佛大学长期工作后，最近加入了马里兰的教师队伍(8/2000)，他们与技术人员Ingo Horn博士一起负责了地质材料的基于激光的电感耦合等离子体质谱痕量元素分析的大部分早期开发工作。自抵达该大学以来，PI还成功地获得了国家科学基金会的资金，用于建立一个新的磁性部门--电感耦合等离子体质谱仪和紫外光激光器，用于对地壳和地幔深层岩石和物相进行痕量元素和同位素原位分析。继续为马里兰大学的这个团队提供一名ICP-MS技术人员的支持，还将服务于一大批活跃的教职员工，以及一个强大的地球科学研究生和本科生课程，这些课程涉及火成岩、变质岩和碳酸盐岩石学、地表和地下水地球化学、经济地质学、实验岩石学和放射性同位素地球化学的研究。大学承诺在这笔赠款到期后至少两年内全力支持这一立场。*

0004128RudnickThis grant provides two years of partial salary support for a technician to work in the ICP-MS lab in the Department of Geology, University of Maryland. This is a Phase II technician support award under the Instrumentation and Facilities program and follows three years of Phase I support (EAR- 9711008) that was awarded when the PI's were at Harvard University. The PI's Rudnick and McDonough recently joined the faculty at Maryland (8/2000) after a long stint at Harvard University where they, together with technician Dr. Ingo Horn, were responsible for much of the early development of laser-based ICP-MS trace element analyses of geological materials. Since arrival at the University, the PI's have also been successful in garnering NSF funds for a new magnetic sector ICP-MS and UV laser for in situ trace element and isotopic analyses of deep crustal and mantle rocks and phases. Continued support of an ICP-MS technician for this team at the University of Maryland will also serve a large and active faculty and a strong graduate and undergraduate program in the geosciences for research in igneous, metamorphic and carbonate petrology, surface and groundwater geochemistry, economic geology, experimental petrology, and radiogenic isotope geochemistry. The University has committed to full support of this position for a minimum of two years beyond expiration of this grant.***