MRI: Acquisition of 40Ar/39Ar Facilities at NM Tech

MRI：在 NM Tech 收购 40Ar/39Ar 设施

• 批准号: 0723256
• 负责人: Matthew Heizler
• 金额: $ 56.76万
• 依托单位: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-01 至 2012-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0723256&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; 40Ar; 39Ar; Facilities

This award to New Mexico Tech will allow purchase and construction of a new generation noble gas mass spectrometer and gas extraction system, respectively. Technology for noble gas systems has remained stagnant for ~25 years, but very recently advances in mass spectrometry have stimulated specific excitement in the geochronological community as well as the earth sciences in general. Each technological advance that allows investigation of time and rate processes with elevated precision and accuracy at finer and finer scale yields a significant leap forward in understanding major earth processes. With this new NSF support, NM Tech is fully equipped to participate in this forward progress. New Mexico Tech will continue strong support for graduate and undergraduate research in geochronology and will also continue it's open-door policies to provide state-of-the-art data and expertise to a wide spectrum of students and collaborators from outside NM Tech. Developing synergy through a range of users and fulfilling community-wide advancement of geochronological sciences through NSF sponsored facilities such as EARTHTIME and EARTHSCOPE will remain a priority for NM Tech and will occupy a significant part of the effort for the new instrumentation.

授予新墨西哥理工学院的这一合同将允许购买和建造新一代惰性气体质谱仪和气体提取系统。惰性气体系统的技术已经停滞不前了约25年，但最近在质谱学方面的进步激起了地质年代界以及整个地球科学界的特别兴奋。每一项技术进步都能在越来越细的尺度上以更高的精确度和准确度调查时间和速率过程，从而在理解主要地球过程方面取得重大飞跃。有了这一新的NSF支持，NM Tech完全有能力参与这一前进的进程。新墨西哥理工学院将继续大力支持研究生和本科生在地质年代学方面的研究，并将继续其开放政策，向来自新墨西哥理工学院以外的广泛范围的学生和合作者提供最先进的数据和专业知识。通过一系列用户发展协同作用，并通过NSF赞助的EARTHTIME和EarthScope等设施实现社区范围内的地质年代学进步，仍将是NM Tech的优先事项，并将占据新仪器工作的重要部分。