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

美国国家科学基金会授予加州州立大学长滩分校（CSULB）的主要研究仪器项目将用于购买和安装具有微量分析能力的环境扫描电子显微镜（ESEM）。该仪器将为自然科学和人类学的跨学科研究和教学项目提供基础和必要的支持。沉积岩石学、古海洋学、构造地质学、地球化学、生物化学和考古测量学等领域的生产性研究项目将直接受益于该仪器。地质科学系、生物科学系和人类学/考古学系的各级学生研究和正式课程将使用该仪器进行成像和成分分析。通过与当地社区学院和高中的教师和学生建立良好的、由美国国家科学基金会和美国国立卫生研究院资助的项目关系和联合研究，校内利益将扩展到更广泛的教育界。CSULB被指定为非博士。授予和少数民族服务机构。CSULB和ESEM设施所在的自然科学与数学学院在致力于社区外展工作方面有着良好的记录。新的ESEM设施，具有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制图能力，将满足当前的研究和教学需求，并提供灵活性，以支持未来20年研究，教学和外展任务的新发展。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，真空敏感或稀有的地质，生物或考古标本，没有碳或金涂层，会干扰随后的痕量元素或同位素分析。联合使用ESEM设施将促进CSULB的地质学、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.***