Acquisition of stable isotope mass spectrometry system for biogeochemical research at the Large Lakes Observatory

0320880 WerneThis重大研究仪器奖明尼苏达大学杜卢斯提供资金用于购买同位素比质谱仪，气相色谱仪和顶空气体采样装置，用于环境科学，生物学，地质学和化学的各种研究项目。 该仪器将与现有的ICP-MS和元素分析仪一起安置在一个新装修的地球化学设施中。 它将为五大湖地区的环境研究提供目前缺乏的重要区域能力，重点是五大湖和其他地方的湖泊研究。 新仪器为本科生和研究生以及教职员工提供分析技术的实践培训，并为研究项目提供研究级仪器。 这项建议得到了NSF海洋科学部的支持。***

0320880WerneThis Major Research Instrumentation award to University of Minnesota Duluth provides funds for acquisition of an isotope-ratio mass spectrometer, a gas chromatograph and a headspace gas sampling device to be applied to a variety of research projects in environmental sciences, biology, geology and chemistry. It will be housed, together with existing ICP-MS and elemental analyzer instruments, in a newly renovated biogeochemistry facility. It will provide an important regional capability, presently lacking, for environmental research in the Great Lakes region, with a strong emphasis on lacustrine studies, both of the Great Lakes and elsewhere. The new instrumentation offers undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty and research staff, hands-on training in analytical techniques as well as access to research-grade instrumentation for research projects. This proposal is supported by the Division of Ocean Sciences at NSF. ***