Technician Support: Phase I for MC-ICPMS Isotope Facility, Washington State University

本提案的资金将为华盛顿州立大学放射源和重稳定同位素设施的技术人员提供薪水。该技术人员将负责海王星MC-ICP-MS和相关清洁实验室的日常操作。该职位对于促进许多正在进行的同位素地球科学项目的追求至关重要，这些项目涉及地壳和地幔演化、火成岩岩石学、Lu-Hf和锆石U-Pb年代学、全球构造学和生物地层学等领域，并确保它们及时完成。为同位素实验室技术人员提供的资金将使华盛顿州立大学和地质学界受益，因为它支持了一个长期为地质学提供地球化学服务的设施。我们的设施对地质界开放，我们欢迎研究人员来华盛顿州立大学进行他们的同位素研究。我们有几项合作，将把其他机构的教职员工、研究科学家、研究生和本科生带到华盛顿州立大学，在MC-ICP-MS上进行化学分离和同位素分析。与外部研究小组的合作对华盛顿州立大学和访客都有重要的好处，因为它允许思想和技术的相互交流。华盛顿州立大学受益于游客带来的大量科学思想。此外，参观者所期望的同位素分析类型往往推动了新分析技术的发展。访问研究人员不仅可以为他们的项目获取同位素数据，而且还可以学习新技术，从分析人员的角度理解他们的数据。学生的参与将是这些合作的基本要素。访问不同的机构，与不同的教师和学生互动，对学生的好处是巨大的，这是年轻科学家职业发展的重要一步

EAR-0434406VervoortThe funding of this proposal will provide salary for a technician to support the radiogenic and heavy stable isotope facility at Washington State University. The technician will be responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Neptune MC-ICP-MS and associated clean laboratory. This position is essential to facilitate the pursuit of many ongoing isotope geoscience projects, in areas such as crust and mantle evolution, igneous petrology, Lu-Hf and zircon U-Pb geochronology, global tectonics and biostratigraphy, and ensure their completion in a timely fashion. The funding for an isotope lab technician will benefit both Washington State University as well as the geologic community, by supporting a facility that has a long-term record of providing geochemical service to geology. Our facilities are open to the geological community and we welcome researchers to come to WSU to perform their isotopic work here. We have several collaborations in place that will bring faculty, research scientists, graduate and undergraduate students to WSU from other institutions to perform chemical separations and isotopic analyses on the MC-ICP-MS. The collaborations with outside research groups have important benefits for both WSU and the visitors by allowing cross-fertilization of ideas and techniques. WSU benefits from the influx of scientific ideas that visitors bring. In addition, the type of isotopic analyses visitors desire often drive the development of new analytical techniques. Visiting researchers benefit by acquiring isotopic data for their projects, but also by learning new techniques and by gaining an understanding of their data from an analyst's point of view. Student participation will be an essential element of these collaborations. The benefit to the student of visiting a different institution and interacting with a different set of faculty and students is enormous and is important step in a young scientist's career development.***