Through a Moore Foundation grant, Pomona College students and faculty will investigate many of the fundamental biogeochemical cycles that provide records of environments of the past.
By establishing an isotope instrument laboratory to enable research and teaching on the rate and nature of environmental change -- the first of its kind at The Claremont Colleges -- students and faculty can study bursts of evolution and extinction in the history of animal life, as well as patterns of climate change in the recent past, prior to the effects of industrialization.
The new isotope instrument lab will provide new analytical capabilities to students and faculty across The Claremont Colleges. Students will be able to do research and work with sophisticated instrumentation that is normally only available at research universities, in the process learning research techniques and gaining familiarity with complex instrumentation.
"Not only will these students produce new data, but they will gain practical experience in all that goes into operating advanced instrumentation, preparing samples, standardization and quality control of data, etc.," says Robert Gaines, associate professor of geology at Pomona College. "Usually, these kinds of instruments are only available at large universities."
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