MRI: Acquisition of an Ion Chromatograph to Support Research and Undergraduate Education

1126217 evans这项主要研究仪器补助金用于购买离子色谱仪（IC），以支持惠顿学院（Wheaton College）的研究和本科教育。D授予机构。IC将支持PI和学生的研究，这些研究将受益于测量天然水样中低浓度（亚ppb）阴离子和阳离子的能力。将受益的研究项目实例包括研究尼泊尔和不丹喜马拉雅地区温泉的二氧化碳和溶质通量，审查海冰覆盖对阿蒙森海生物生产力的影响，以及调查东西伯利亚永久冻土退化对溪流和河流生物地球化学的影响。IC还将通过现有的弥尔顿学院支持PI高中的外展工作。惠顿学院高中环境科学暑期流域影响研究

1126217EvansThis Major Research Instrumentation grant supports acquisition of an ion chromatograph (IC) to support research and undergraduate education at Wheaton College, a non-Ph.D granting institution. The IC will support PI and student research that will benefit from the ability to measure low concentration (sub ppb) anions and cations in natural water samples. Example research projects that will benefit include studies of CO2 and solute fluxes from hot springs in the Nepal and the Bhutan Himalaya, examination of the impacts of sea-ice cover on biological productivity in the Amundsen Sea, and investigation of the impacts of permafrost degradation on stream and river biogeochemistry across East Siberia. The IC will also support PI high school outreach efforts using the IC through an extant Milton Academy ? Wheaton College high school environmental science summer watershed impact study.***