Aquisition of Geophysical Field Equipment for Earth Science Research and Teaching at the University of Alabama

0216520哈利从这个主要的研究仪器补助金的支持下，地质科学系在亚拉巴马大学将购买地球物理场设备，以促进与我们部门的自然资源勘探，保护和修复的重点相关的研究和教学活动。 拟采购的设备包括一个探地雷达系统、潜在场勘测设备、一个沉积物取样系统和支持高分辨率海洋地震勘测的设备。 结合现有的陆地和海洋地震测量系统，浅层取芯设施和最先进的地球成像计算设施，所要求的设备将建立一个强大的设施，用于获取和分析所需的地球物理数据，以支持各种研究和教学活动的持续增长。 这些设备将创造一个有利于跨学科研究的环境，非常适合该部门的教师，并应大大扩大校内和校外的合作研究和教学活动，并努力为州和地方社区提供服务。 使用该设备的具体计划包括NSF，DOE和私人资助的沿海过程，地下水流和污染物运输，化石燃料资源，沉积盆地分析和构造研究计划。 在不久的将来将利用这些设备的项目包括：（1）在密西西比的哥伦布试验场对含水层进行浅层地球物理成像，目的是为污染物迁移建模所用的水文传导模型建立地层背景;（2）对黑武士盆地和邻近的阿巴拉契亚和沃希塔褶皱和冲断带进行势场测量，目的是确定盆地沉降与造山构造之间的关系;（3）以限制环境形成的时间和物理过程为目标的海岸系统的综合地球物理学和沉积学研究。***

0216520HarryWith support from this Major Research Instrumentation grant, the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama will purchase geophysical field equipment to facilitate research and teaching activities associated with our department's emphasis on Natural Resource Exploration, Conservation, and Remediation. Equipment to be purchased includes a ground penetrating radar system, potential field surveying equipment, a sediment coring system, and equipment to support high-resolution marine seismic surveys. Combined with existing land and marine seismic surveying systems, shallow coring facilities, and state-of-the-art Earth Imaging Computational Facility, the requested equipment will establish a robust facility for acquisition and analysis of geophysical data needed to support continued growth in a wide variety of research and teaching activities at UA. The equipment will create an environment conducive to interdisciplinary research that is ideally suited to the faculty in the department, and should greatly expand intra- and extramural collaborative research and teaching activities and efforts to provide service to state and local communities. Specific plans for use of the equipment include NSF, DOE, and privately funded research initiatives in coastal processes, groundwater flow and contaminant transport, fossil fuel resources, sedimentary basin analysis, and tectonics. Examples of such projects that will make use of the equipment in the immediate future include: (1) shallow geophysical imaging of the aquifer at the Macrodispersion Experiment (MADE) test site in Columbus Mississippi, with the goal of developing a stratigraphic context for hydrologic conductivity models used for contaminant transport modeling; (2) potential field surveying of the Black Warrior Basin and adjacent Appalachian and Ouachita Fold and Thrust belts, with the goal of determining the relationship between basin subsidence and orogenic tectonics; and (3) integrated geophysical and sedimentological studies of coastal systems with the goal of constraining the timing and physical processes of environment formation. ***