Acquisition of a New Multi-Collector, Solid Source Mass Spectrometer

该奖项提供所需资金的一半， 购买一个多收集器，固体源质谱仪， 在地质科学系安装和运行 弗吉尼亚理工学院州立大学（VPI）。 该大学致力于提供其余一半的 购买所需的资金，并将住房和维护 设备 同位素地球化学研究的新前沿在于 同位素数据在反应中的应用 这种最先进的仪器将允许 VPI地球科学小组和区域同事继续他们的 在地质年代学和同位素示踪剂的使用， 重建阿巴拉契亚山脉的地质历史

This award provides one-half of the funding required to purchase a multicollector, solid-source mass spectrometer to be installed and operated in the Department of Geological Sciences at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (VPI). 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 frontiers of research in isotope geochemistry lie in the application of isotope data to reactions taking place at the micro-scale and this state-of-the-art instrument will allow the VPI earth science group and regional colleagues to continue their active program in geochronology and the use of isotope tracers in reconstructing the geologic history of the Appalachians.