Technician Support for the (U-Th)/He Dating Facility at Caltech

0091837法利这笔赠款为加州理工学院氦测年设施的技术员林赛·赫奇斯提供两年的部分工资支持。近几年来，（U-Th）/He定年技术的发展和应用取得了迅速的进展，He定年为一系列重要的地球科学问题提供了定量的新见解。Hedges一直是加州理工学院He Dating工作的一个组成部分，特别是在促进合作和传播我们开发的技术细节方面。这个第二阶段的奖项将使她能够继续1）保留日常维护硬件和用品的责任，在他约会实验室，2）教育新用户从加州理工学院内部和外部社区如何准备和分析他年龄样本，3）分析合作者提供的样本，和4）准备，分发，分析，并评估少数矿物标准，以便在快速增长的He测年社区中分发。

0091837FarleyThis grant provides funds for two years of partial salary support for technician Lindsey Hedges in the helium dating facility at Caltech. The last few years have seen rapid progress in the development and application of (U-Th)/He dating, and He ages have been shown to provide quantitative new insights to a range of important Earth science problems. Hedges has been an integral part of He dating efforts at Caltech, particularly in promoting collaborations and in dissemination of the details of the techniques we have developed. This Phase II award will allow her to continue to 1) retain responsibility for day-to-day maintenance of hardware and supplies in the He dating laboratory, 2) educate new users from within Caltech and in the outside community in how to prepare and analyze He age samples, 3) analyze samples supplied by collaborators, and 4) prepare, distribute, analyze, and evaluate a small number of mineral standards for distribution within the rapidly growing He dating community.***