ACQUISITION OF AN INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROMETER

0929966 Martinez该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。这笔赠款的资金将支持购买电感耦合等离子体光发射（ICP-OES）光谱仪，用于需要快速同时进行多元素分析的土壤地球化学研究。 ICP-OES将支持宾夕法尼亚州立大学多个教师和学生的研究？PI和学生的研究将利用ICP-OES对土壤、植物组织和自然沃茨进行微量元素分析，进行一系列研究，重点是了解关键土壤养分的运输和归宿以及相关的土壤地球化学过程和成土作用。 研究用途将包括调查NSF资助的页岩山CZO内的关键区域过程。 PI对土壤、地表沃茨和大气之间微量金属通量的研究将支持知情的水资源和农业管理做法。 该奖项支持两名新的NSF PI和一名代表性不足的女性环境化学家。

0929966 MartinezThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Funds from this grant will support the acquisition of an inductively coupled plasma optical emission (ICP-OES) spectrometer for research in soil biogeochemistry requiring rapid simultaneous multielement analysis. The ICP-OES would support the research of multiple faculty and their students in Penn State?s Department of Crop and Soil Sciences.PI and student research will utilize the ICP-OES for trace element analysis of soils, plant tissues and natural waters for a range of studies focused on understanding the transport and fate of key soil nutrients and related biogeochemical processes and pedogenesis. Research uses will include investigations of Critical Zone processes within the NSF-funded Shale Hills CZO. PI research on trace metal fluxes between soils, surface waters and the atmosphere will support informed water resource and agricultural management practices. This award supports two new NSF PIs and an underrepresented female environmental chemist.