MRI: Acquisition of a scanning electron microscope with EDS, EBSD, and CL for research and teaching in a multi-user facility

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项目编号	1625137
	MRI: Acquisition of a scanning electron microscope with EDS, EBSD, and CL for research and teaching in a multi-user facility
	Sarah Carmichael
主持机构	Appalachian State University
项目开始年	2016
	2016-09-15
项目结束日期	2019-08-31
资助机构	US-NSF
项目类别	Standard Grant
项目经费	561842(USD)
国家	美国
语种	英语
英文摘要	1625137 Carmichael This Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant supports acquisition of a scanning electron microscope equipped with a high brightness electron source, an energy dispersive spectrometer, an electron backscatter diffractometer, and cathodoluminescence (CL) microscope to allow microscale textural and compositional imaging of solid earth, biological and synthetic materials as well as study of rock fabrics based on EBSD determination of crystallographic preferred orientation. The instrument will replace an aging SEM rapidly nearing the end of its serviceable life and will support research and research training Appalachian State University, a non-Ph.D. granting institution. This support is congruent with NSFs mission of promoting the progress of science and advancing the national health, prosperity and welfare given the importance of training the next generation scientific workforce in methods of analysis and scientific research methodologies. Appalachian State University is a primarily undergraduate institution and the investigators have a strong track record of engaging undergraduate students in laboratory and field research. Many of the students at Appalachian State are first-generation college students. The instrument will support and foster a range of investigator and student research including study of the role of microbes in manganese mineral formation, the geochemistry of mass extinctions, the extent of coal ash releases into river systems, the use of glacial grain roughness as a tracer for paleoclimate signals, applications to fission track thermochronology, thermobarometry, and analysis of deformation mechanisms to study dome formation in the Southern Appalachian mountains, the kinematics of faulting in the Southern Appalachians, plant root development, fluid-mineral reactions in volcanic ash, meteorite classification, metamorphism of ultra-high pressure systems, Ediacaran fossil assemblages, the effect of climate change on Fraser firs, vascular changes during pregnancy, the microbial ecology of peat bogs, and a variety of archaeological studies. ***
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/70438
专题	环境与发展全球科技态势
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sarah Carmichael.MRI: Acquisition of a scanning electron microscope with EDS, EBSD, and CL for research and teaching in a multi-user facility.2016.