MRI: Acquisition of a Mass Spectrometry Facility for Research, Education and Outreach on Drinking and Ground Water Quality

0922818 McGinley这项提议是为了在威斯康星大学史蒂文斯分校的流域科学和教育中心(CWSE)建立一个质谱仪组合，以促进饮用水和地下水的研究、教育和推广。这一组需要两台分析仪器：一台电感耦合等离子体/质谱仪(电感耦合等离子体/质谱仪)和一台液相色谱仪/质谱仪(LC/MS)。它们将共同推动在通过水文系统检测、量化和追踪无机和有机污染物方面取得重大进展。所要求的仪表组将是对一个实验室的重要补充，该实验室已经成为饮用水和地下水污染物发生的研究和分析以及将土地利用的影响与地下水质量联系起来的外联中心。这一仪表组的具体研究重点是确定和了解地下水中存在的各种人为和地球化学饮用水污染物。该仪器是必要的，以满足以下要求：1)较低的量化限度；2)识别新的和新出现的污染物；3)将人为示踪剂纳入水文路径评估。核磁共振提案中描述的仪表组将为教学和推广提供一个现代化的平台。这些文书与改进的教学和宣传之间的直接联系确保了这项文书赠款产生了重要的、更广泛的影响。这些设备将取代CWSE使用了十多年的较旧的分析仪器。该组合仪器将直接用于美国最大的自然资源学院之一的两门课程。它将成为一个实验室的本科生研究的一部分，该实验室已经强调学生使用复杂的分析仪器。此外，改进的分析能力将有助于每年与威斯康星大学扩建的数千名私人油井所有者进行外联工作，并将对维持目前的伙伴关系和与机构和研究组织建立新的伙伴关系至关重要。

0922818McGinleyThis proposal is for a mass spectrometry instrument cluster for advancing drinking and ground water research, education and outreach at the Center for Watershed Science and Education (CWSE) at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Two analytical instruments are requested for this cluster: an Inductively Coupled Plasma / Mass Spectrometer (ICP/MS) and a Liquid Chromatograph / Mass Spectrometer (LC/MS). Together, they will allow important advances in inorganic, and organic contaminant detection, quantification and tracing through hydrologic systems. The requested instrument cluster will be a critical addition to a laboratory that already serves as a regional center for research and analysis on drinking and ground water contaminant occurrence, and for outreach on linking the impacts of land use to ground water quality. The specific research focus for this instrument cluster is characterizing and understanding the occurrence of a variety of anthropogenic and geochemical drinking water contaminants in ground water. The instrumentation is necessary to meet the demands for: 1) lower quantification limits; 2) identification of new and emerging contaminants; and, 3) incorporation of anthropogenic tracers into hydrologic pathway evaluation. The instrument cluster described in the MRI proposal will provide a modern platform for teaching and outreach. The direct link between these instruments and improved teaching and outreach ensure that there are important broader impacts of this instrumentation grant. The equipment will replace older analytical instruments that have been in the CWSE for more than a decade. The instrument cluster will be used directly in two courses at one of the largest natural resource colleges in the U.S. It will become part of undergraduate research in a laboratory that already emphasizes student use of complex analytical instrumentation. In addition, the improved analytical capability will assist an outreach effort that reaches thousands of private well owners annually with the University of Wisconsin-Extension, and will be important to maintaining current and building new partnerships with agency and research organizations.