Acquisition of Additional Radio-Analytical Capabilities, TAMUG's Laboratory for Oceanographic & Environmental Research, Coastal Zone Laboratory & Coastal Geology Laborator

有了这笔小额赠款的资助，位于加尔维斯顿的德克萨斯农工大学的研究人员将使他们的环境放射性同位素实验室的数据采集和分析能力现代化。 获得供资的放射化学设备将大大有助于正在进行的研究领域，这些领域包括：（1）研究锕系金属在地下和地表水环境中的流动性;（2）调查沉积物迁移陆地和沿海海洋环境中的侵蚀、再悬浮、沉积和沉积地质年代学;以及（3）陆地和沿海海洋环境中纳米颗粒和生物分子-生物群相互作用的研究。 就更广泛的影响而言，这笔赠款应大大增强受赠方的无线电分析能力。 这将有助于继续和改进他们与州和联邦资助机构的研究工作，他们作为具有区域意义的环境分析实验室的作用，他们与区域、国家和国际科学家和机构的合作研究关系，他们与当地社区和利益攸关方实体的接口，以及他们继续作为本科生和研究生、博士后研究人员和访问科学家的教育和培训资源的能力。

With funding from this small grant, researchers at the Texas A & M University at Galveston will modernize the data acquisition and analysis capability of their environmental radioisotope laboratory. Areas of ongoing research that will greatly benefit from the acquisition of radiochemical equipment for funded radiochemistry include the following: (1) studies of actinide metal mobility in subsurface and surface water environments; (2) investigations of sediment transport (erosion, resuspension, deposition) and sediment geochronology in terrestrial and coastal marine environments; and (3) research on nano-particle and biomolecule-biota interactions in terrestrial and coastal marine environments. In terms of broader impacts, this grant should significantly augment the grantee's radio-analytical capabilities. It will allow facilitate the continuation and improvement of their research efforts with state and federal funding agencies, their role as an environmental analytical laboratory of regional significance, their collaborative research relationships with regional, national and international scientists and institutions, their interface with local communities and stakeholder entities, and their ability to continue to function as a resource for the education and training of undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and visiting scientists.