Acquisition of an Image Analysis System for Computer-aided Instruction

这项授予佛罗里达国际大学地质学系的奖项是对提交给国家科学基金会仪器和实验室改进计划的一项建议的回应。该合同将提供购买图像分析系统所需资金的一半，以加强系本科生培训方案中的教育和研究。该大学承诺为此次收购提供50%的配套资金。该设备将用于该部门矿物学、岩石学和古生物学课程的显微镜实验室练习。该图像分析系统还将用于该系的本科生研究计划，以加强岩石的模式分析、变质岩石的变形组构分析以及微化石演化的形态分析。

This award to Florida International University's Department of Geology is made in response to a proposal submitted to the National Science Foundation's Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Program. The award will provide one-half of the funds needed to acquire an image analysis system for the purpose of enhancing education and research in the Department's undergraduate training programs. The University is committed to providing fifty percent matching funds for this acquisition. The equipment will be used in the Department's microscopy laboratory exercises in courses in mineralogy, petrology and paleontology. The image analysis system will also be used in the Department's undergraduate research program to enhance modal analysis of rocks, analysis of deformation fabrics in metamorphosed rocks, and morphological analysis of evolution in microfossils.