Acquisition of Near-Surface Geophysical and Sampling Equipment for Earth Surface Processes and Quaternary Stratigraphic Research

0079588菲茨杰拉德该奖项，通过主要研究仪器（MRI）计划，提供部分支持的成本收购一套近地表的地球物理和采样设备的研究第四纪沉积学和地层学的障壁岛系统，冰川地貌，和地质考古学在波士顿大学。 具体而言，需要购置的仪器包括一个探地雷达系统、一个拖车式液压岩芯系统和卡车以及一个电子总勘测系统。 购置这一设备将有助于计划中和正在进行的关于沉积过程的研究，这些沉积过程是缅因州和马萨诸塞州全新世屏障形成的原因，有助于研究高纬度高山环境中的第四纪冰川相，以便将观察到的任何气候信号与冰芯和深海沉积物中记录的其他经过充分研究和记录的千年尺度气候事件联系起来，以及对南极洲干旱河谷中新世景观演变的研究。

0079588FitzGeraldThis award, made through the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program, provides partial support of the costs of acquiring a suite of near-surface geophysical and sampling equipment for research on the Quaternary sedimentology and stratigraphy of barrier island systems, glacial geomorphology, and geoarchaeology at Boston University. Specifically, instrumentation to be acquired includes a ground penetrating radar system (GPR), a trailer mounted hydraulic drill core system and truck, and an electronic total survey system. Acquisition of this equipment will facilitate planned and ongoing research on the sedimentation processes responsible for the development of Holocene barriers in Maine and Massachusetts, studies of Quaternary glacial facies in high latitude alpine environments in an effort to correlate any observed climate signals to other well studied and documented millennial-scale climate events recorded in ice cores and deep marine sediments, and studies of the Miocene landscape evolution of the Dry Valleys of Antarctica.***