MRI: Acquisition of Thermal Ionization Mass-Spectrometer for UCSC W.M. Keck Facility

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项目编号	1532276
	MRI: Acquisition of Thermal Ionization Mass-Spectrometer for UCSC W.M. Keck Facility
	Terrence Blackburn
主持机构	University of California-Santa Cruz
项目开始年	2015
	2015-08-15
项目结束日期	2017-07-31
资助机构	US-NSF
项目类别	Continuing grant
项目经费	400000(USD)
国家	美国
语种	英语
英文摘要	This award funds the acquisition of a new Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer (TIMS) to be integrated into the W.M. Keck Isotope Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The TIMS will be co-located within the recently renovated climate-controlled laboratory and wet chemistry clean labs needed for the preparation of geologic samples for isotopic analysis. The reopening of this open-user facility will catalyze new research and provide the tools needed to train undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral researchers in the use of high precision isotopic methodologies. The Earth and Planetary Science department, which is one of the largest Earth Science department?s in the country with over a 150 majors, has a population representative of the student body which includes over 40% from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds and a first year class made up of 41% of first generation college students. Outreach from this award includes a mini-grants program, available to internal and external users, to support exploratory and developmental research. This facility will allow high precision U-Pb and U-series geochronologic dating with research applied to the origin and evolution of the continental and oceanic crust, the dynamics of volcanic systems and the timing and rate of glaciations and climatic change. Additional capabilities include measurements of the Sr, Ca, Nd, and Pb isotope systems, which are applied by UCSC Earth and Marine scientists to reconstruct variations in paleo-seawater in response to changes in tectonic uplift, climate, biogeochemical cycling and ocean circulation. UCSC paleontologists and ecologists use these same tools to study food web dynamics and foraging ranges of organisms in the present and past.
来源学科分类	Geosciences - Earth Sciences
文献类型	项目
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/68509
专题	环境与发展全球科技态势
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Terrence Blackburn.MRI: Acquisition of Thermal Ionization Mass-Spectrometer for UCSC W.M. Keck Facility.2015.