<div dir="ltr">Hello Students,<div><br></div><div>Please see the message below from Dr. Pete Homyak about a graduate course in isotope analysis being offered this fall. </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Kerry<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Peter Homyak</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:phomyak@ucr.edu">phomyak@ucr.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 9:38 PM<br>Subject: Isotopes course this fall (ENSC-218)<br>To: Loralee Larios <<a href="mailto:loralee@ucr.edu">loralee@ucr.edu</a>>, Marko Spasojevic <<a href="mailto:markos@ucr.edu">markos@ucr.edu</a>>, Sydney Glassman <<a href="mailto:sydneyg@ucr.edu">sydneyg@ucr.edu</a>>, Louis Santiago <<a href="mailto:santiago@ucr.edu">santiago@ucr.edu</a>>, Darrel Jenerette <<a href="mailto:gdjen@ucr.edu">gdjen@ucr.edu</a>>, Emma Aronson <<a href="mailto:emmaa@ucr.edu">emmaa@ucr.edu</a>>, Maryjo Brounce <<a href="mailto:mbrounce@ucr.edu">mbrounce@ucr.edu</a>>, Robert Allen <<a href="mailto:robert.allen@ucr.edu">robert.allen@ucr.edu</a>>, Sandra Kirtland Turner <<a href="mailto:sandra.turner@ucr.edu">sandra.turner@ucr.edu</a>>, Ysabel Giraldo <<a href="mailto:ysabel.giraldo@ucr.edu">ysabel.giraldo@ucr.edu</a>>, Kerry Mauck <<a href="mailto:kerry.mauck@ucr.edu">kerry.mauck@ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="FR">Dear all, </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="FR">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. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="FR">We’ll explore </span>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.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thank you,</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">-Pete</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="m_4746542351900416333_SignatureSanitizer_m_3910901674682384102__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1f497d">Peter M. Homyak, Ph.D. (he/him)</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1f497d">Assistant Professor of</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1f497d">Ecosystem and Soil Microbial Processes</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1f497d">Associate Editor: </span></span><a href="https://www.elementascience.org/" target="_blank"><span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:blue">Elementa</span></span><span></span></a><span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1f497d"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1f497d">Director, <a href="https://ccb.ucr.edu/facilities/firms" target="_blank">Facility for Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry</a><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1f497d">Dept. of Environmental Sciences</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1f497d">University of California, Riverside</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1f497d">900 University Ave</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1f497d" lang="ES-CO">Riverside, CA 92521</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span></span><a href="mailto:Phomyak@ucr.edu" target="_blank"><span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:blue" lang="ES-CO">Phomyak@ucr.edu</span></span><span></span></a><span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1f497d" lang="ES-CO"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1f497d">(951) 827-2358 | 312 Sci Lab I</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span></span><a href="http://petehomyak.weebly.com/" target="_blank"><span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:blue">http://petehomyak.weebly.com</span></span><span></span></a><span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1f497d"> </span></span></p><span></span><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div></div></div>
</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Dr. Kerry Mauck</b></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Associate Professor & A.M. Boyce Endowed Chair in Entomology</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">163 Entomology Building</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Department of Entomology</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">University of California, Riverside<br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Riverside, CA 92521</font></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Pronouns: she/her</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Office: Entomology 324</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Lab: Entomology 320<br>Riverside, CA 92521</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Phone: 302-242-7948</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Email: <a href="mailto:kerry.mauck@ucr.edu" target="_blank">kerry.mauck@ucr.edu</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wt9IkqgAAAAJ&hl=en" target="_blank">Google Scholar</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://maucklab.ucr.edu/" target="_blank">https://maucklab.ucr.edu/</a><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:small">UCR occupies the ancestral lands of the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on these homelands.</span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>