Ulrike, This sounds great, its the same type of thing I do in my lab class, which is why I would like to do the JGE approach..I will add you to my list of people interested! Cheers Greg At 07:20 AM 2/25/2009, you wrote: >Dear Greg, > >I would be interested in participating but I´m >not sure if the lab-experiments we designed some >years ago are serieous / scientific enough to be >published. To introduce students to isotope >fractionation, mass-spectrometry and >gas-chromatography we do the following experiments: > >1) Measurement of the isotopic composition of >atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen and comparison >with the isotopic composition of the same gases ( and CO2) in expired air >2) Measurement of the C- isotopic composition of >different sugars / honey and comparison with the >C-isotopic composition of CO2 released during >respiration of yeast feeded with the sugars / honey. >3) Measurement and comparison of the isotopic composition of CO2 of >expired air and exhaust gas of cars. > >Please let me know, if these topics may be of >interest for the issue mentioned below. > >Have a nice day > >Ulrike Schulte > >>>Second call for anyone interested in putting >>>together some isotope related education articles for J. of Geoscience education >> >> >> >> >>Greg Michalski, Assistant Professor >>http://www.purdue.edu/eas/michalski/ >>Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences >>Purdue University >>550 Stadium Mall Dr. >>Lafayette IN.47907 > > >-- >------------------------------------------------ >Dr. Ulrike Schulte >Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie und Geophysik >Lehrstuhl für Sediment- und Isotopengeologie >Ruhr-Universität Bochum >Universitätsstr. 150 > >D-44801 Bochum > >Tel.: 0234/32-25454 >Fax.: 0234/32-14571 >------------------------------------------------ Greg Michalski, Assistant Professor http://www.purdue.edu/eas/michalski/ Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Purdue University 550 Stadium Mall Dr. Lafayette IN.47907