Dr. Steven Green, Soil and Water Conservation, Dr. Alan Christian, Zoology, Dr. Jennifer Bouldin, Ecotoxicology, and Dr. Robyn Hannigan, Geochemistry, were awarded a $190,835 National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant. Collaborators on the grant include Dr. Ben Rougeau, Chemistry, and Dr. Bill Baker, Plant Science. This grant facilitates the establishment of a new Biogeochemical Analysis Laboratory in the Agriculture Building. Grant funds will purchase three major analytical instruments: a carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur analyzer for solids; a dissolved carbon and nitrogen analyzer for liquid solutions; and a wet chemistries autoanalyzer. These instruments will be used in conducting four interdisciplinary research projects in biology, geochemistry, and agriculture. This grant will also be used for undergraduate and graduate teaching laboratories in the departments of Biological Sciences and Chemistry and Physics, the College of Agriculture, and the Environmental Sciences graduate program.