Technician Support: Upgrading and Expanding the Electron Microprobe Facility, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts

9725456威廉姆斯这笔赠款为马萨诸塞大学的一名电子微探头技术人员提供了为期三年的部分工资支持。这是仪器和设施(IF)计划下的第一阶段技术支持(TS)请求。最初，Michael Jercinovic博士将帮助这些研究人员使用最近获得的自动化和成像包(EAR-9503054)在他们的Cameca SX-50电磁脉冲上建立新的分析程序。薪酬支持将涵盖一段过渡期，因为他们将使用新升级的EMP来启动新的分析方法，并获得最终将提供收入以取代NSF支持的外部合同。该设施不仅支持地质系和工程学院教师的岩石学和材料研究项目，还支持其他几个地区教师及其本科生(即史密斯学院、威廉姆斯学院、阿默斯特学院、芒特霍利奥克大学和高露洁大学)的研究项目。Jercinovic将专注于开发新的分析程序，包括开发新的SX-100软件附带的远程控制模块。这一功能允许通过互联网对EMP进行一些远程操作，并可以以类似的方式返回背向散射电子图像。远程操作为无法直接获得有效分析级电磁脉冲的地区性大学的教育目的提供了重要的进步。***

9725456 Williams This grant provides three-years partial salary support for an electron microprobe (EMP) technician at the University of Massachusetts. This is a Phase I technician support (TS) request under the Instrumentation and Facilities (IF) Program. Initially, Dr. Michael Jercinovic will help these investigators establish new analytical procedures on their Cameca SX-50 EMP using a recently acquired automation and imaging package (EAR- 9503054). Salary support will cover a transition period as they spin up new analytical procedures using their newly upgraded EMP and acquire outside contracts that will eventually provide revenues to replace NSF support. The facility not only supports the petrologic and materials research programs of faculty within the Department of Geology and the College of Engineering, but also the research programs of several other regional faculty and their undergraduate students (i.e. Smith College, Williams College, Amherst College, Mount Holyoke and Colgate University). Jercinovic will focus on developing new analytical procedures including development of the remote control module that shipped with the new SX-100 software. This feature allows for some remote operations of the EMP via the internet and can return backscattered electron images in a similar fashion. Remote operation offers an important advance for educational purposes at regional colleges that do not have direct access to a functioning analytical grade EMP. ***