Equipment Request to Support Process-Oriented Studies of theFormation of the Sedimentary Record

该合同支持采购用于分析不同环境下沉积记录形成过程的设备。该奖项将推进北极峡湾、高纬度海洋陆架沉积系统、海洋外陆架和斜坡环境以及控制碳酸盐矿物降水的地球化学过程的过程导向研究。所要求的设备包括：一个α光谱系统、一个碳氮分析仪系统和一个分光光度计。所要求的设备将补充北伊利诺伊大学的分析基地，该基地在环境变化的地质记录和北极和南极环境中地质记录形成过程的研究和教学方面发展良好。

This award supports the acquisition of equipment for analysis of sedimentary record forming processes in a number of different environments. This award will forward process-oriented research in Arctic fjords, high latitude marine shelf sedimentary systems, marine outer shelf and slope environments, and geochemical processes governing carbonate mineral precipitation. The equipment requested includes: an alpha spectroscopy system, a carbon- nitrogen analyser system, and a spectrophotometer. The requested equipment will complement the analytical base at Northern Illinois University which is well developed for research and teaching in the geological record of environmental change, and in the processes governing the formation of the geological record in Arctic and Antarctic environments.