[Entm-beu] Fwd: Isotopes course this fall (ENSC-218)

[Kerry Mauck]

Hello Students,

Please see the message below from Dr. Pete Homyak about a graduate course
in isotope analysis being offered this fall.

Best,
Kerry

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Peter Homyak <phomyak at ucr.edu>
Date: Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 9:38 PM
Subject: Isotopes course this fall (ENSC-218)
To: Loralee Larios <loralee at ucr.edu>, Marko Spasojevic <markos at ucr.edu>,
Sydney Glassman <sydneyg at ucr.edu>, Louis Santiago <santiago at ucr.edu>,
Darrel Jenerette <gdjen at ucr.edu>, Emma Aronson <emmaa at ucr.edu>, Maryjo
Brounce <mbrounce at ucr.edu>, Robert Allen <robert.allen at ucr.edu>, Sandra
Kirtland Turner <sandra.turner at ucr.edu>, Ysabel Giraldo <
ysabel.giraldo at ucr.edu>, Kerry Mauck <kerry.mauck at ucr.edu>


Dear all,



I’ll be teaching Isotopes in Ecology and Environmental Sciences (ENSC-218)
this fall 2023 and I’ll appreciate forwarding this announcement to graduate
students in your group/department. The course is designed to provide
graduate students and advanced undergraduates an introductory understanding
of how and why stable- and radioisotopes are used in ecology and
environmental sciences.



We’ll explore the principles and techniques of isotope tracer fractionation
and mixing. We start with basic concepts introducing isotope notation,
mixing models, and kinetic and equilibrium fractionation concepts. We’ll
then go over case studies involving stable- and radioisotopes of C, N, O
and S. We’ll also use class and discussion time to gain hands-on experience
operating an isotope ratio mass spectrometer and cavity ring-down
spectrometer.



This course is taught every other year, so this would be the last chance to
take it before fall 2025. Prerequisites: math up to calculus (though we
won’t use calculus) and at least one year of college chemistry.



Thank you,



-Pete


Peter M. Homyak, Ph.D. (he/him)

Assistant Professor of

Ecosystem and Soil Microbial Processes

Associate Editor: Elementa <https://www.elementascience.org/>

Director, Facility for Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry
<https://ccb.ucr.edu/facilities/firms>

Dept. of Environmental Sciences

University of California, Riverside

900 University Ave

Riverside, CA 92521

Phomyak at ucr.edu

(951) 827-2358 | 312 Sci Lab I

http://petehomyak.weebly.com




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