Acquisition of an Electron Microprobe

该奖项授予佐治亚大学，将提供购买电子显微探针仪器所需资金的一半。该仪器将安置在该大学的地质系并由其操作，供校内和该地区其他机构的合格科学家使用。佐治亚大学致力于匹配国家科学基金会对该设备的贡献。电子探针是一种分析仪器，能够对非常小体积的固体材料进行精确的化学分析，并已被证明对岩石，矿物和合成材料的分析非常有价值。格鲁吉亚的设备将用于需要进行微观分析的岩石学、地球化学、矿物学、经济地质学和考古地质学方面的若干研究项目。

This award to the University of Georgia will provide one-half of the funds needed to acquire an electron microprobe instrument. The instrument will be housed and operated in the University's Department of Geology and will be available for use by qualified scientists on campus and from other institutions in the region. The University of Georgia is committed to matching the NSF contribution for this equipment. The electron microprobe is an analytical instrument capable of accurate chemical analysis of a very small volume of solid material and has proven extremely valuable for the analysis of rock, mineral and synthetic materials. The equipment at Georgia will be used in a number of research projects in petrology, geochemistry, mineralogy, economic geology, and archeogeology for which microanalysis is needed.