Core C: Research Support Cores

我们的危害识别核心[HIC]（核心C）的目标是提供最先进的化学分析服务，这些服务将被所有生物医学和环境科学研究项目以及与研究转化和推广核心相关的研究所利用。HIC的金属分析实验室一直在为我们的UA SBRP研究项目提供总金属和砷形态分析，从而为许多出版物提供数据。在这次更新中，我们将扩大该核心的服务，包括亚利桑那州新兴污染物实验室（ALEC）作为另一个分析站点。ALEC将提供额外的金属形态分析、粒度和化学分析以及有机污染物分析。本核心的具体目标是：1。金属分析实验室将提供常规的总金属分析。2. 金属分析实验室将提供常规砷形态分析。3. ALEC将提供除砷以外的选定金属（类金属）的液相形态分析。4. ALEC将提供含污染物颗粒的大小和化学成分分析。5. ALEC将提供环境样品中有机污染物和降解产物的常规和专业分析。通过提供和扩展HIC分析服务，我们的UA SBRP研究人员将有机会获得不断改进的技术能力，以满足他们的基础科学研究（生物医学，环境科学，工程和修复）的目标。通过提供专业人员的支持，研究人员不必担心开发和执行人员、实验室空间和供应方面昂贵的高级分析程序。HIC已经并将成为促进UA SBRP研究人员研究的特殊资产。

The objective of our Hazard Identification Core [HIC] (Core C) is to provide state-of-the-art chemical analytical services that will be utilized by all of the Biomedical and Environmental Sciences Research Projects and by the studies that are associated with the Research Translation and Outreach Cores. The Metals Analysis Laboratory of the HIC has been providing total metal and arsenic speciation analyses for our UA SBRP research projects resulting in data for numerous publications. In this renewal we will expand the services of this Core by including the Arizona Laboratory for Emerging Contaminant (ALEC) as another analytical site. ALEC will provide additional metal speciation analyses, particle size and chemistry analyses, and organic pollutant analyses. The Specific Aims of this Core are: 1. Metals Analysis Laboratory will provide routine total metal analysis. 2. Metal Analysis Laboratory will provide routine arsenic speciation analysis. 3. ALEC will provide analyses for solution phase speciation of selected metal(loid)s other than arsenic. 4. ALEC will provide analysis of size and chemical composition of contaminant-containing particles. 5. ALEC will provide routine and specialty analysis of organic contaminants and degradation products in environmental samples. By supplying and expanding the HIC analytical services, our UA SBRP investigators will have access to constantly improving technological capabilities in order to meet the aims of their basic scientific investigations (biomedical, environmental science, engineering, and remediation). By providing expert staff support, investigators are not burdened by concerns of having to develop and perform advanced analytical procedures that are costly in terms of personnel, laboratory space, and supplies. The HIC has been and will be an exceptional asset for facilitating the research of UA SBRP investigators.