Acquisition of Analytical Instrumentation for a Mobile Environmental Lab on the Pine Ridge Reservation

0321299 schwalm这项主要研究仪器（MRI）计划的资助将用于购置一套分析仪器，用于当地环境地球科学研究、奥格拉拉·拉科塔部落学院本科生教育以及南达科他州松岭美国印第安人保留地的区域K-12推广工作。松树岭保留地是美国第二大保留地，拥有超过1200万英亩的土地和大约11000名居民。奥格拉拉科塔部落学院是一所社区管理的四年制学术机构，大约有1300名学生分布在保留地的九个学院中心。这些分析设备将在奥格拉拉拉科塔被用于装备一个移动野外实验室，该实验室将服务于这个大型保留区的大学中心，用于应用环境研究，包括研究保留区房屋和建筑物中普遍存在的有害黑霉孢子，研究农业农药通过区域流域的运输和归宿的基线研究，以及研究保留区废弃和非法垃圾填埋场的甲烷和二氧化碳排放。购买的主要设备包括：1)一个膜界面探针，专门设计用于学院目前的GeoProbe取心系统，用于沉积物和孔隙水中挥发性有机化合物的原位分析；2)研究黑霉的气溶胶监测系统；3)双频GPS接收器，用于精确定位样本站点，并集成到正在开发的GIS教育模块中；4)组合水质监测系统，包括电导率、溶解氧、温度和浊度传感器；5)一辆全地形车和一辆拖车，以补充现有的移动厢式货车，以便在这片道路稀少的大保留地进行实地分析工作。＊＊＊

0321299SchwalmSupport from this Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program grant will allow for the acquisition of a suite of analytical instruments to be employed in local environmental geosciences research, Oglala Lakota Tribal College undergraduate student education, and regional K-12 outreach efforts on the Pine Ridge American Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The Pine Ridge Reservation is the second largest reservation in the U.S. with over 12 million acres and approximately 11,000 residents. Oglala Lakota Tribal College is a community governed four-year academic institution with approximately 1300 students located in nine college centers across the reservation. The analytical equipment will be used at Oglala Lakota to equip a mobile field lab that will serve the college centers across this large reservation for applied environmental research including studies of pervasive and deleterious black mold spores in reservation homes and buildings, base line research on the transport and fate of agricultural pesticides through regional watersheds, and studies of methane and CO2 emissions from abandoned and illegal landfills on the reservation. Major equipment to be purchased include: 1) a Membrane Interface Probe that is specifically designed to work on the college's current GeoProbe coring system for in situ analyses of volatile organic compounds in sediments and pore waters; 2) an aerosol monitoring system for black mold studies; 3) a dual frequency GPS receiver for accurate sample site positioning and integration into a developing GIS educational module; 4) a combined water quality monitoring system that includes conductivity, dissolved oxygen, temperature and turbidity sensors and; 5) an ATV and trailer to complement the existing mobile van equipped for field-based analytical work on this large reservation with few roads. ***