Integrating Research and Education: Tracking Arsenic from Pressure-treated Wood

PI：泰森机构：马萨诸塞大学该奖项支持马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校在朱利安·泰森指导下的一个研究和教育项目。他将研究确定土壤和水中砷含量的方法，目的是设计一种初高中学生可以用来研究压力处理木材中砷浸出到环境中的方法。该项目的第一阶段将涉及研究开发使用分光光度检测技术的低成本现场测试。这将产生适合K-12学生使用的分析程序和设备。在第二阶段，测试程序将在马萨诸塞州斯普林菲尔德的初中和高中教室进行现场测试。它也将被纳入马萨诸塞大学本科分析化学实验课。研究小组的目标是制作初中-高中水平和本科水平的课程材料。

PI: Tyson Institution: U of MassachusettsThis award supports a research and education project at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) under the direction of Julian Tyson. He will investigate procedures to determine the arsenic content in soils and water with the goal of devising one that middle and high school students can use to investigate arsenic leaching from pressure treated wood into the environment. The first phase of the project will involve research towards developing a low cost field test using spectrophotometric detection techniques. This will result in an analysis procedure and apparatus suitable for use by K-12 students. In the second phase, the test procedure will be field tested in middle and high school classrooms in Springfield MA. It will also be incorporated into the UMass undergraduate analytical chemistry laboratory classes. The research team aims to create curricular materials for use both at the middle school-high school level and the undergraduate level.