Multi-User and Multi-Disciplinary Ion and Element Analyzers

该奖项为购买分析设备提供部分支持，由六名教职员工和学生研究人员共享，他们都参与了该大学的生态与进化多学科倡议计划。该设备包括元素分析仪和自动分析仪、消化模块和两台计算机，用于控制和获取自动和元素分析仪的数据。它们将用于分析植物组织、土壤、土壤提取物和水样中的总氮、磷、碳和土壤硝酸盐、铵、磷和二氧化硅。设备的可获得性促成的研究包括生态系统一级的营养循环、碳封存、草食对植物的影响、陆地生态系统的化学计量、湖泊学、古气候学和遥感生物量指数的验证。除了这个小组的使用，这些设备还将提供给生物科学、地质和自然资源学院内从事各种主题的其他研究人员和研究生，并将成为内布拉斯加大学林肯分校新的生态学重点的关键组成部分。

This award provides partial support for purchase of analytical equipment to be shared by six faculty and by student researchers, all of whom are participating in a multi-disciplinary Initiative in Ecology and Evolution program at the University. The equipment includes an elemental analyzer and autoanalyzer, a digestion block and two computers to control and acquire the data from the auto- and element analyzer. These will be used to analyze plant tissues, soils, soil extracts and water samples for total nitrogen, phosphorus, carbon and soil nitrate, ammonium, phosphate and silica. Research enabled by availability of the equipment include studies of ecosystem-level nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration, impacts of herbivory on plants, stoichiometry in terrestrial ecosystems, limnology, paleoclimatology, and validation of remotely sensed biomass indexes. In addition to its use by this group, the equipment will be available to other researchers and graduate students working on various topics within the School of Biological Sciences, Geology and the School of Natural Resources and will be a key component of a new focus on ecology within the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.