Upgrading of the X-Ray Diffraction and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR) Facilities for Mineralogical Research

9911501 schroeder这笔拨款为佐治亚大学地质系（UGA）矿物学研究升级x射线衍射（XRD）和傅立叶变换红外光谱仪（FTIR）设施的费用提供部分支持。佐治亚大学研究基金会提供了等额的配套资金。项目负责人Paul A. Schroeder博士将负责新数据采集硬件的安装、x射线管的安装以及x射线衍射系统的软件升级。他还将监督新的FTIR工作台、探测器和数据分析系统的安装。FTIR的独特之处在于能够在远红外区域进行矿物研究。UGA的这些升级将为强大的地质研究和教学计划提供持续的分析支持。每年大约有50名地质学学生接受这些分析方法的实践培训和/或理论熟悉。XRD和FTIR实验室通常被认为是具有成本效益的分析设施，通常被地质行业使用。因此，接受培训的学生在就业市场上具有竞争优势。佐治亚大学将受益的研究项目包括：(1) Paul A. Schroeder博士关于土壤/风化岩矿物中的碳固存及其在估算硅酸盐风化和土壤呼吸长期速率中的应用的项目；(2)Sandra J. Wyld博士关于内华达州西北部黑岩沙漠地区白垩纪时代地壳不连续的项目，以及莫哈韦-雪湖断层与鲑鱼河-爱达荷缝线之间的运动学联系的项目，以及她关于揭示变形空间模式的项目；(3) Alberto Patino Douce博士关于超高压变质作用的研究项目，(4)Valentine a . Nzengung博士关于有机粘土制备及其吸附效果测定的研究项目，以及(5)dr。Schroeder和Patino Douce研究硅酸盐片的远红外振动模式的想法。在过去的10年里，XRD和FTIR设备产生的数据帮助佐治亚大学的教师和学生出版了85种出版物（书籍，文章和论文）

9911501SchroederThis grant provides partial support for the costs of upgrading the X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR) facilities for mineralogical research in the Geology Department at the University of Georgia (UGA). Equal matching funds have been provided by the University of Georgia Research Foundation. The PI, Dr. Paul A. Schroeder will oversee the installation of new data acquisition hardware, X-ray tube and software upgrades for the XRD system. He will also oversee the installation of a new FTIR bench, detector and data analysis system. Unique to the FTIR will be the ability to conduct mineral studies in the far-IR region. These upgrades at UGA will allow continued analytical support to a robust geological research and teaching program. Approximately 50 geology students per year receive practical training and/or theoretical familiarization with these analytical methods. XRD and FTIR labs are generally considered cost-effective analytical facilities and are commonly used by geological industries. For this reason, students who receive training are placed at a competitive advantage in the job market.Examples of research programs at UGA that will benefit include: (1) Dr. Paul A. Schroeder's program on carbon sequestration in soil/saprolite minerals and its application to estimating long-term rates of silicate weathering and soil respiration, (2) Dr. Sandra J. Wyld's program on the Cretaceous-age crustal discontinuity in the Black Rock Desert region of northwest Nevada and the kinematic link between the Mojave-Snow Lake fault and the Salmon River-Idaho suture, and her program for unraveling spatial patterns of deformation, regional metamorphism and exhumation within a Mesozoic fold-thrust belt, central Nevada, (3) Dr. Alberto Patino Douce's program on ultra-high pressure metamorphism, (4) Dr. Valentine A. Nzengung program on the preparation of organoclays and determination of their sorption effectiveness, and (5) Drs. Schroeder and Patino Douce's idea to study the far-IR vibration modes of sheet silicates. Data generated by the XRD and FTIR facilities over the past 10 years have helped produce 85 publications (books, articles plus theses) by UGA faculty and students.***