Technician Support for the WHOI ICPMS Facility

该提案要求为研究专家拉里·鲍尔提供技术支持，拉里·鲍尔是伍兹霍尔海洋研究所ICPMS设施的经理，也是ThermoFinnigan NEPTUNE多收集器ICPMS的主要操作员。拉里·鲍尔监督研究助理大卫·施耐德和高级研究助理斯科特·伯德惠斯尔，他们负责ELEMENT2的日常操作，这是一个单一的收集器ICPMS。larry Ball拥有二十年的光学和部门现场仪器ICP经验。他于1997年参与建立了WHOI ICP设施，并在将其发展成为一个运作良好、富有成效和开放的设施，拥有广泛的内部和外部用户基础方面发挥了重要作用。他在ICP光谱仪，机械和电子技能方面的专业知识，对分析问题的技术解决方案的能力以及他的人际交往能力使他成为理想的设施经理。该提案旨在通过larry Ball的支持，促进海王星上关键分析协议（Li, Cl, Mg, Ca, Fe, Sr, Cd, Nd, Hf, Os, Pb, Th， U）的发展，因此海王星设施可以在未来通过广泛的新分析平台驱动不同的用户群实现自我维持。对全职技术员职位的支持将产生更广泛的影响，向学生、博士后和客座科学家介绍最先进的仪器，从而减轻“黑匣子”的心态，这种心态可能会使地球化学界被大量质量可疑的同位素数据所淹没。拉里·鲍尔将密切参与对海王星用户的培训。他将通过基于网络的MC-ICPMS用户组参与传播“诀窍”，类似于非常有效的在线ELEMENT用户组。制定和及时出版新的分析方案将使世卫组织内外广泛和多样化的用户群受益。

EAR-0318137Peucker-EhrenbrinkThis proposal requests technician support for Research Specialist Lary Ball, the manager of the ICPMS Facility at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and primary operator of the ThermoFinnigan NEPTUNE multicollector ICPMS. Lary Ball supervises Research Associate David Schneider and Senior Research Assistant Scot Birdwhistell, who are responsible for the routine operation of the ELEMENT2, a single collector ICPMS. Lary Ball has two decades of ICP experience with optical and sector-field instruments. He was involved in establishing the WHOI ICP Facility in 1997 and has been instrumental in developing it into a well-operated, productive and open facility with a broad in-house and external user base. His expertise in ICP spectrometers, mechanical and electronic skills, aptitude for technical solutions to analytical problems combined with his interpersonal skills make him an ideal facility manager. This proposal is aimed at fostering the development of critical analytical protocols (Li, Cl, Mg, Ca, Fe, Sr, Cd, Nd, Hf, Os, Pb, Th, U) on the NEPTUNE, through support of Lary Ball, so the NEPTUNE facility can become self-sustaining in the future with a diverse user base driven by a broad range of new analytical platforms. Support for a full-time technician position will have broader impacts by introducing students, post-docs and guest scientists to state-of-the-art instrumentation, thereby mitigating the "black box" mentality that may overwhelm the geochemistry community with abundant isotope data of questionable quality. Lary Ball will be intimately involved in training users on the NEPTUNE. He will participate in the dissemination of the "tricks-of-the-trade" through a web-based MC-ICPMS user group, analogous to the very effective on-line ELEMENT user group. Development and timely publication of new analytical protocols will benefit a broad and diverse user base at WHOI and beyond.