Project Details
Projekt
Multi-Kollektor-ICPMS (MC-ICPMS)
Subject Area
Geology and Palaeontology
Term
Funded in 2017
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 391307011
Over the past 15 years, the widespread introduction of multi-collector inductively couple plasma mass spectrometry (MC-ICPMS) in laboratories world-wide has contributed to a rapid expansion of analytical capabilities. This has led to a number of remarkable, high-profile discoveries in Science. It has thus become a mainstay of isotope research in a multitude of scientific disciplines, such as Earth and Planetary sciences, Environmental research as well as Palaeontology. The top-ranked and internationally recognised science carried out at the Geowissenschaftliches Zentrum Göttingen (GZG), and the two departments of Physical Geography and Soil Sciences of Temperate Ecosystems reflects the breadth of research that truly benefits from having direct access to such a device. Although extensive scientific as well as analytical expertise exists at the GZG to operate and fully exploit the use of a MC-ICPMS instrument, no such facility currently exists at the Göttingen Campus. Here, a consortium of high-profile academics from six different research departments and from across three research centres have identified the need for such a device and thus propose the installation of a next-generation MC-ICPMS facility at the GZG. Direct on-site access to a MC-ICPMS will ensure that current research commitments can be fulfilled. A MC-ICPMS facility at the University of Göttingen – used for such a diversity and variety of research topics as herein proposed – will not only have a synergetic effect but will also provide the natural impetus for developing novel and interdisciplinary research themes of the future.
DFG Programme
Major Research Instrumentation
Major Instrumentation
Multi-Kollektor-ICPMS (MC-ICPMS)
Instrumentation Group
1700 Massenspektrometer
Applicant Institution
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
