Facility Suppport: Phase Two of a NSF/Boston University partnership ensuring long-term technician support for the BU TIMS Facility

设施支持：NSF/波士顿大学合作伙伴关系的第二阶段确保为 BU TIMS 设施提供长期技术支持

• 批准号: 0949390
• 负责人: Ethan Baxter
• 金额: $ 14万
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-05-15 至 2013-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0949390&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Facility; Suppport; Phase; Two; NSF

This award extends an NSF/Boston University (BU) partnership to ensure technician support for the BU TIMS Facility in the Department of Earth Sciences. The award provides two years of funding for the BU TIMS Facility Manager after which time Boston University will guarantee continuation of technical support for the productive lifetime of the Facility. The Facility includes a Triton TIMS (Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer), a New Wave MicroMill device, and a newly renovated 1000 ft2 clean lab including 300 ft2 of brand new space explicitly designed for ultra-clean TIMS related sample preparation. We specialize in the preparation and analysis of very small samples for isotopic analysis, in particular for Neodymium and Strontium. The TIMS Facility is at the heart of geochemical research in the Department of Earth Sciences supporting the four BU PIs' NSF-funded research spanning tectonics and metamorphism, igneous and mantle processes, weathering and earth surface processes, geochemical paleoceanography, and paleoclimatology. As an open regional facility for isotopic analysis, the TIMS Facility draws a very large external userbase from the geochemical community. Almost 50% of the on-site userbase is external to Boston University (from 10 other institutions thusfar), and involves predominantly NSF-funded research projects. In addition, the technical support position enables hands-on training in TIMS isotope geochemical analysis for a significant number of graduate and undergraduate students. Over 50% of the users have been students (graduate and undergraduate), and a major part of the technician?s efforts have gone into student training. Thus, the technician enables us to stay true to our mission of sustaining a research lab of excellence, while training students as the next generation of isotope geochemists. Through our website, conference presentations, and publications we actively advertise the availability of the lab and seek to share its capabilities and methodologies with the broader geochemical community.

该奖项扩展了NSF/波士顿大学（BU）合作伙伴关系，以确保技术人员支持地球科学系Bu Tims设施。 该奖项为BU TIMS设施经理提供了两年的资金，此后波士顿大学将保证继续为该设施的生产寿命提供技术支持。 该设施包括Triton Tims（热电离质谱仪），新的Wave Micromill设备以及新近翻新的1000 FT2清洁实验室，包括300 FT2的全新空间，明确设计用于相关的相关样品制备。 我们专门研究非常小的样品的同位素分析，特别是在新近天od缩和锶中。 TIMS设施是地球科学系的地球化学研究的核心，支持了四个BU PIS资助的NSF资助的研究，这些研究涵盖了构造和变质，火成岩和地幔过程，风化和地球表面过程，地球化学古生物学术和古质量学。作为用于同位素分析的开放区域设施，TIMS设施从地球化学社区吸引了一个非常大的外部用户群。几乎50％的现场用户群是波士顿大学（来自其他10个机构的法国）外部的，并且主要涉及NSF资助的研究项目。 此外，技术支持职位还可以在TIMS同位素地球化学分析中为大量的研究生和本科生进行动手培训。超过50％的用户是学生（研究生和本科生），而技术人员的大部分努力已经进行了学生培训。 因此，技术人员使我们能够忠于维持卓越研究实验室的使命，同时培训学生为下一代同位素地球化学家。 通过我们的网站，会议演示和出版物，我们积极宣传实验室的可用性，并试图与更广泛的地球化学社区共享其能力和方法。