Acquisition of Gas-mixing and TZM Furnaces and Associated Equipment: Experimental Petrology at Fayetteville State University

购置气体混合和 TZM 熔炉及相关设备：费耶特维尔州立大学的实验岩石学

• 批准号: 0949076
• 负责人: Steven Singletary
• 金额: $ 6.61万
• 依托单位: Fayetteville State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-01-15 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0949076&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Acquisition; Gas; mixing; TZM; Furnaces

This award will equip an experimental petrology laboratory at Fayetteville State University that will be used in conjunction with the SENCR-MIC Electron microprobe to investigate the process of planetary assembly; engage under-represented groups in hypothesis-driven Earth Science research; and strengthen K-12 Earth Science education in southeastern North Carolina. Experiments conducted in the laboratory will generate new data that will facilitate a better understanding of how primitive meteorites, the compositions of which are assumed to represent that of the primitive solar nebula, behave during melting at pressures that approximate asteroid interiors during early solar system evolution. New data generated in the lab will help reconcile discrepancies that exist between observations and models of planetary formation.Fayetteville State University is a historically black college/university (HBCU) that is a constituent member of the University of North Carolina system. It has an enrollment of ~6000 students, with females comprising over 70% of the student body and African-Americans comprising 73% of the student body. The presence of an experimental petrology laboratory on the campus will allow for the inclusion of underrepresented groups into Earth Science research with the goal of encouraging them to continue on to graduate studies. FSU was founded as a teacher training college and continues to serve in that role today. The nature of experimental petrology and the excitement that comes with hypothesis-driven and discovery-based research will serve to strengthen K-12 Earth Science education as teachers in training explore the boundaries of our knowledge through experimentation in the lab.

这项奖励将装备费耶特维尔州立大学的一个实验岩石学实验室，该实验室将与SENCR-MIC电子微探测器一起使用，以调查行星组装的过程；让代表不足的群体参与假说驱动的地球科学研究；并加强北卡罗来纳州东南部的K-12地球科学教育。在实验室中进行的实验将产生新的数据，这些数据将有助于更好地理解原始陨石的组成，这些陨石的成分被认为代表原始太阳星云的成分，在太阳系早期演化过程中，在接近小行星内部的压力下，陨石在融化过程中表现如何。实验室产生的新数据将有助于调和观测和行星形成模型之间存在的差异。费耶特维尔州立大学是一所历史上的黑人学院/大学(HBCU)，是北卡罗来纳大学系统的组成成员。它有大约6000名学生，其中女性占学生总数的70%以上，非裔美国人占学生总数的73%。在校园内设立一个实验岩石学实验室将使未被充分代表的群体能够参与地球科学研究，目的是鼓励他们继续进行研究生学习。FSU成立时是一所教师培训学院，今天仍在发挥这一作用。实验岩石学的性质以及假设驱动和基于发现的研究带来的兴奋将有助于加强K-12地球科学教育，因为培训中的教师通过实验室实验探索我们知识的边界。