www.alec.arizona.edu
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www.alec.arizona.edu
You’re invited!* To the open house at the Arizona Laboratory for Emerging Contaminants [ALEC]! Please mark your calendar! When: Wednesday, January 21 @ 3pm Where: ALEC [828/848 Gould-Simpson] What: Introduction to ALEC capabilities and instruments *Refreshments provided As the societal need for potable water continues to grow worldwide, there is a need to better understand environmental and human impacts on its availability, quality and sustainability. As one part of the UA’s mission to serve as a reliable public resource for decision-making in water quality, we announce the opening of the Arizona Laboratory for Emerging Contaminants (ALEC). www.alec.arizona.edu Questions? Email [email protected] Arizona Laboratory for Emerging Contaminants ALEC is a collaborative core facility dedicated to advancing analytical capabilities in water and environmental quality. Faculty in four colleges at the UA, along with colleagues at ASU and NAU, have established the new state-of-the-art mass spectrometry facility for detecting and quantifying trace organic and inorganic contaminants in water, biological fluids, biomass and environmental matrices. The facility is intended to provide a keystone for future university growth in water and environmental science, engineering and toxicology. ALEC is Co-Directed by Drs. Jon Chorover and John Chesley and is supported by funding from the NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program, the University of Arizona’s Water Sustainability Program, the Arizona Water Institute, and the Deans of four UA colleges (CALS, CoS, CoE and CoP). ALEC has two full-time mass spectrometrists (Dr. Leif Abrell and Mary Kay Amistadi) who will assist and train faculty, students and staff from all three Arizona state universities in the analysis of metals and organic micro-pollutants. This shared analytical facility, which became operative in Fall of 2008, comprises 2000 ft2 of newly remodeled space. A principal focus is on the development and application of liquid and gas chromatography tandem MS (LC-MSMS and GC-MSMS) techniques, along with inductively coupled plasma (ICP)-MS methods (including HPLC pre-separations) to accurately measure organic and inorganic contaminants down to trace (ng L-1) concentrations, and to understand the nature of pollutant carriers (dissolved and colloidal constituents). The NSF-AZ funding was for costly instrumentation and newly remodeled laboratory space. Therefore, proposals to utilize ALEC facilities would leverage a significant NSF-AZ investment in major research instrumentation that is dedicated to cross-disciplinary water science and engineering studies. Further details can be found at the ALEC website http://www.alec.arizona.edu. Specific instrumentation in ALEC includes: • • • • • Perkin-Elmer HPLC-ICPMS (Series 200 with ELAN DRCII ICP-MS) Waters Inc. Quattro-Micro GC-MSMS Waters Inc. Quattro-Premier XE LC-MSMS Caliper Life Sciences AutoTrace Automated Solid Phase Extraction system Wyatt multi-angle static and dynamic light scattering, with on-line refractive index and UV detectors coupled to size exclusion chromatography or an Eclipse Asymmetric Field Flow Fractionation (AFFF) system • Horiba Jobin Yvon Fluoromax-4 Spectrofluorometer Inquiries regarding sample analysis should be directed to: Leif Abrell, Ph.D. Arizona Laboratory for Emerging Contaminants Email: [email protected] Phone: 520-488-7475 Mary Kay Amistadi, M.S. Arizona Laboratory for Emerging Contaminants Email: [email protected] Phone: 520-488-6386