Welcome to the Arsenic Project Website for Spring 2008
This site supports the activities of students at UMass Amherst and partner institutions (Forest Park and Chestnut Middle Schools in Springfield) who are engaged in research related to the biogeochemical, environmental and analytical chemistry of arsenic. The site is maintained by the project director, Professor Julian Tyson. The site is currently under construction (change over from earlier versions) and was last updated on 2/14/2008 at 12:15 pm.
The kick-off meeting for the spring semester 2008 program will be on Tuesday Feb 19th at 5:30 pm in LGRT 115.
Prof. Tyson's PowerPoint presentation to Sigma Xi at Smith College.
Groups, projects and timeline (Excel file)
e-mail addresses
Messages from Prof. Tyson
Background paper (not yet updated ) Word file
Measurement of arsenic ( not yet updated )
Research Proposal (Word version)
Guidelines for grading (includes guidelines for final report)
More guidelines for final report
Questionnaire (Word document) (updated 5/15)
Group Reports
Background Papers
Techniques for measuring arsenic (updated 1/28)
Research Proposals (updated 12/18)
Final Reports
Previous semesters
What happened with the fall 2006 program?
Click here to see what the participants in spring 2006 achieved.
Click here to see what the participants in fall 2005 achieved.
Prof Tyson's presentation at the ACS National Conference March 2006
Background to the work: list of possible projects.
Project reports. Guidelines for writing a scientific paper.
Professor Tyson's research group.
This material is based, in part, upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants DGE-0139272 and CHE-0316181. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.