Criteria for, and implementation of, remote instrumentation access

ANYL 364

Allen D. Hunter, adhunter@ysu.edu1, Paul Szalay, pszalay@muskingum.edu2, Timothy R. Wagner, trwagner@cc.ysu.edu3, Raymond Hoff, rehoff@cc.ysu.edu3, and Matthias Zeller, mzeller@cc.ysu.edu1. (1) Department of Chemistry, Youngstown State University and STaRBURSTT CyberDiffraction Consortium, 1 University Plaza, Youngstown, OH 44555-3663, (2) Department of Chemistry, Muskingum College, Muskingum College, Room 322, Boyd Science Center, New Concord, OH 43762, (3) Department of Chemistry, Youngstown State University, 1 University Plaza, Youngstown, OH 44555-3663
Continuing advances in hardware and software are making it increasing easy to both collect and process data from modern scientific instruments. Undergraduates and other novices are therefore increasingly able to successfully use these tools in their coursework and research. Unfortunately, no Predominantly Undergraduate Institution has the resources to purchase and maintain any but a selected sample of the instrumentation that they would like to have access to. Remote access over the WEB via instrumentation consortia offer a potentially effective solution. The advantages and disadvantages to such a remote access approach will be discussed along with practical recommendations about how to implement such remote access instrumentation consortia. Several examples will be presented including the STaRBURSTT (Science Teaching and Research Brings Undergraduate Research Strengths Through Technology) - CyberInstrumentation Consortia and other single crystal diffraction, NMR, and MS instrumentation consortia in which Youngstown State University acts as a node.
 

Building Analytical Chemistry Communities through the Web and Beyond
1:00 PM-4:40 PM, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 Georgia World Congress Center -- B216, Oral

Sci-Mix
8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Monday, 27 March 2006 Georgia World Congress Center -- Ex. Hall B4, Sci-Mix

Division of Analytical Chemistry

The 231st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 26-30, 2006