Acquisition of an Analytical Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope for Research and Teaching

0216494 BehlThis NSF重大研究仪器计划奖给加州州立大学，长滩（CSULB）将支持环境扫描电子显微镜（ESEM）与微量分析能力的收购和安装。该仪器将为自然科学和人类学的跨学科研究和教学计划提供基本和必要的支持。沉积岩石学、古海洋学、构造地质学、地球化学、生物化学和考古学的生产性研究项目将直接受益于使用该仪器。在地质科学，生物科学和人类学/考古学系的各级学生研究和正式课程将利用这种仪器进行成像和成分分析。校内福利将通过完善的NSF和NIH资助的项目关系以及与当地社区学院和高中的教师和学生的联合研究扩展到更广泛的教育界。CSULB被指定为非博士。资助和少数民族服务机构。CSULB和自然科学与数学学院，其中ESEM设施将位于，有一个强大的记录，承诺社区外展工作。 新的环境扫描电镜设施，与二次和背散射电子成像，阴极发光检测，定量元素微量分析和绘图能力，将满足当前的研究和教学需求，并提供灵活性，以支持在未来二十年的研究，教学和推广任务的新发展。环境扫描电子显微镜（ESEM）将成像和分析高度多孔，精致，潮湿，肮脏，真空敏感或罕见的地质，生物或考古标本，没有碳或金涂层，会干扰后续的微量元素或同位素分析。联合使用ESEM设施将促进CSULB地质学，生物学，考古学和环境科学学科之间的协同，跨学科合作。

0216494BehlThis NSF Major Research Instrumentation Program award to the California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) will support the acquisition and installation of an Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (ESEM) with microanalytical capabilities. This instrumentation will provide fundamental and necessary support for cross-disciplinary research and teaching programs in the natural sciences and anthropology. Productive research programs in sedimentary petrology, paleoceanography, structural geology, geochemistry, biochemistry, and archaeometry will directly benefit from access to this instrument. Student research and formal courses at all levels in the Departments of Geological Sciences, Biological Sciences, and Anthropology/Archaeology will utilize this instrument for imaging and compositional analysis. Intramural benefits will be extended to the broader educational community via well-established, NSF- and NIH-funded programmatic ties and joint research with faculty and students of local community colleges and high schools. CSULB is designated a Non-Ph.D. Granting and Minority-Serving Institution. CSULB and the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, where the ESEM facility will be located, has a strong record of commitment to community outreach efforts. The new ESEM facility, with secondary and backscattered electron imaging, cathodoluminescent detection, and quantitative elemental microanalysis and mapping capabilities, will meet current research and pedagogic needs, and provide the flexibility to support new developments in research, teaching, and outreach missions over the next two decades. The Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (ESEM) will image and analyze highly porous, delicate, moist, dirty, vacuum-sensitive or rare geologic, biologic or archaeological specimens without carbon or gold coating that would interfere with subsequent trace elemental or isotopic analysis. Joint use of the ESEM facility will foster synergistic, cross-discipline collaboration among the geology, biology, archeology and environmental science disciplines at CSULB.***