Technician Support: Geochemistry Laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh, Phase II

第二阶段的奖励提供了两年的部分研究实验室技术人员在地质和行星科学地球化学设施在匹兹堡大学的部门支持。这些设施包括样品制备、清洁化学和仪器实验室;主要仪器包括电感耦合等离子体原子发射光谱仪（ICP-AES）和NSF资助的多接收器热电离质谱仪（TIMS）。这些实验室支持主要研究人员以及NSF，NASA和DOE资助项目的众多合作者的研究，范围从煤矿排水的地球化学到土壤演变，古气候记录，古土壤年代学和演变，海洋沉积物地球化学和环境示踪剂研究。该奖项支持的技术人员负责实验室的日常运作，处理和分析来自多个PI领导的调查的样本，监督本科生实验室助理，维护设备，培训合作者和本科生和研究生研究人员，并协助课程相关的实验室项目。

EAR-0517313CapoThis Phase II award provides two years of partial research laboratory technician support in the Department of Geology and Planetary Science Geochemistry Facility at the University of Pittsburgh. The facilities comprise sample preparation, clean chemistry, and instrumentation laboratories; major instruments include an inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometer (ICP-AES) and an NSF-funded multicollector thermal ionization mass spectrometer (TIMS). The laboratories support the research of the principal investigators as well as numerous collaborators on NSF-, NASA-, and DOE-funded projects ranging from the geochemistry of coal mine drainage to soil evolution, paleoclimate records, paleosol chronology and evolution, marine sediment geochemistry, and environmental tracer studies. The technician supported by this award is responsible for day-to-day operation of the labs, processing and analysis of samples from multiple PI-led investigations, supervision of undergraduate laboratory assistants, maintenance of equipment, training of collaborators and undergraduate and graduate student researchers, and assistance with course-related lab projects.