Operation SWAB: Monitoring of Ship, Van, and Laboratory 14C and 3H Contamination

这个为期5年的奖项授予迈阿密大学罗森斯蒂尔海洋和大气科学学院(RSMAS)，为拭子项目提供支持，该项目对研究船、实验室货车和实验室因放射性同位素泄漏而造成的污染进行采样和分析。它继续执行一项为期25年的计划，以监测大学-国家海洋实验室系统(UNLS)的研究船和相关机构设施的氚和放射性碳污染，向参与这些同位素自然丰度研究的研究人员保证，船上使用的采样环境和设备不受人为污染。对船只和货车的仔细监测对于确保能够继续共享使用研究船只至关重要，包括涉及同位素示踪剂的生化研究和要求检测浓度最高可低1000亿倍的同位素的环境研究。拭子办公室提供人员对污染进行采样，并根据需要提供采样和清理方面的指导。***

0624179HappellThis 5-year award to University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (RSMAS) provides support for the SWAB program, which samples and analyzes research vessels, laboratory vans and laboratories for contamination due to spills of radioisotopes. It continues a 25-year program to monitor research vessels of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) and related institutional facilities for tritium and radiocarbon contamination, assuring researchers involved in studies of natural abundance of these isotopes that the sampling environment and equipment used on board the ships are free from anthropogenic contamination. Careful monitoring of the vessels and vans is essential to ensure that the shared use of the research vessels can continue, including both biochemical research involving isotopic tracers and environmental research requiring detection of isotopes at levels up to 100 billion times lower in concentration. The SWAB office provides personnel to sample for contamination, as well as instruction in both sampling and cleanup as needed. ***