Acquisition of a Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometer

这项合同提供了购买一台具有微量采样能力的多收集器、稳定的同位素质谱仪所需资金的一半，该仪器将在加州大学戴维斯分校的地质系安装和运行。大学承诺提供购买所需的剩余一半资金，并将为设备提供住房和维护。新仪器将在加州大学戴维斯分校建立第一个全校范围的多用途稳定同位素设施，在那里，三名首席调查员将组成主要用户小组，开展海底和地下热液地球化学中流体-岩石相互作用研究项目，并解释深海岩心样品的古气候记录。

This award provides one-half of the funding required to purchase a multicollector, stable isotope mass spectrometer with micro-sampling capabilities to be installed and operated in the Department of Geology at the University of California-Davis. The University is committed to providing the remaining half of the funds necessary for the purchase and will house and maintain the equipment. The new instrument will establish the first campus-wide, multi-purpose stable isotope facility at UC-Davis where three Principal Investigators will constitute the prime-user group with research projects on fluid-rock interactions in submarine and subaerial hydrothermal geochemistry and interpreting the paleoclimatic record of deep-sea core samples.