Grant: Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)
University of Manitoba
$83,853.00
Acquisition of elemental analyzer system and balance for C,N, and S content and isotope analyses
FY 2007-08
Summary
The University of Manitoba was recently awarded a $7.4 M from the Canada Foundation for Innovation to establish the Manitoba Regional Materials and Surface Characterization Facility. A Secondary-ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) laboratory was established as part of this facility. The departments of Geological Sciences (Fayek, Hawthorne, Halden, Camacho, Bekker), Chemistry (Freund), Mechanical Engineering (Cahoon, Chaturvedi), Electrical Engineering (Buchanan), and several other researchers greatly benefit from the SIMS laboratory at the University of Manitoba.A theme of this proposal is to enhance a collaborative study of biogeochemical carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur cycles on various temporal scales and in different environmental settings as well as the understanding of alteration that these biogeochemical signals experienced by diagenesis, metamorphism, radiolysis, and subduction to the mantle. Recently, Fayek established a CFI and RTI funded stable isotope laboratory, since instrumentation for stable isotope analysis did not exist at the University of Manitoba. Although this lab is primarily dedicated to SIMS research, it will also be used by other faculty and students for stable isotope studies. The laboratory has the mass spectrometer with two peripherals: thermal conversion elemental analyzer (TC-EA) and GasBench III for C and O isotope analyses of carbonates and dissolved inorganic carbon in waters. Combined, this infrastructure permits isotopic characterization (e.g. C, S, H, and O) of some materials. However, these devices are neither appropriate nor efficient to isotopically characterize reduced compounds of C, N, and S in sediments, which are pivotal to the research of the PI and Co-applicants. The online system for C, N, and S isotope analysis of small samples with high precision and accuracy and large sample throughput is still missing in the department and at the university. Therefore, the infrastructure requested here will be used to establish a capability that currently does not exist at the University of Manitoba, but is necessary for cutting edge research of the applicants as well as other researchers in other departments.
Program
Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)
Recipient
Location
Manitoba, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
360038-2008
Name nom
Bekker, Andrey
Department département
Geological Sciences
Organization id
19
Institution établissement
University of Manitoba
Province en
Manitoba
Province fr
Manitoba
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2007
Competition year année de concours
2008
Award amount
83853
Program id
EQPEQ
Program name en
Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)
Program name fr
Outils et instruments de recherche - catégorie 1 (<150 000$)
Group en
Discovery grants programs
Group fr
Programmes de subventions à la découverte
Committee code
8
Committee name en
Solid Earth Sciences
Committee name fr
Sciences de la Terre solide
Area of application code
1203
Area of application group en
Advancement of knowledge
Area of application group fr
Avancement des connaissances
Area of application en
Earth sciences
Area of application fr
Sciences de la terre
Research subject code
4205
Research subject group en
Geochemistry and geochronology
Research subject group fr
Géochimie et géochronologie
Research subject en
Stable isotopes
Research subject fr
Isotopes stables
Partie
1
Nb partie
1
Application title
Acquisition of elemental analyzer system and balance for C,N, and S content and isotope analyses
Keyword
NA
Application summary
The University of Manitoba was recently awarded a $7.4 M from the Canada Foundation for Innovation to establish the Manitoba Regional Materials and Surface Characterization Facility. A Secondary-ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) laboratory was established as part of this facility. The departments of Geological Sciences (Fayek, Hawthorne, Halden, Camacho, Bekker), Chemistry (Freund), Mechanical Engineering (Cahoon, Chaturvedi), Electrical Engineering (Buchanan), and several other researchers greatly benefit from the SIMS laboratory at the University of Manitoba.A theme of this proposal is to enhance a collaborative study of biogeochemical carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur cycles on various temporal scales and in different environmental settings as well as the understanding of alteration that these biogeochemical signals experienced by diagenesis, metamorphism, radiolysis, and subduction to the mantle. Recently, Fayek established a CFI and RTI funded stable isotope laboratory, since instrumentation for stable isotope analysis did not exist at the University of Manitoba. Although this lab is primarily dedicated to SIMS research, it will also be used by other faculty and students for stable isotope studies. The laboratory has the mass spectrometer with two peripherals: thermal conversion elemental analyzer (TC-EA) and GasBench III for C and O isotope analyses of carbonates and dissolved inorganic carbon in waters. Combined, this infrastructure permits isotopic characterization (e.g. C, S, H, and O) of some materials. However, these devices are neither appropriate nor efficient to isotopically characterize reduced compounds of C, N, and S in sediments, which are pivotal to the research of the PI and Co-applicants. The online system for C, N, and S isotope analysis of small samples with high precision and accuracy and large sample throughput is still missing in the department and at the university. Therefore, the infrastructure requested here will be used to establish a capability that currently does not exist at the University of Manitoba, but is necessary for cutting edge research of the applicants as well as other researchers in other departments.
