Facility Support: Institute for Rock Magnetism

设施支持：岩石磁学研究所

• 批准号: 1028690
• 负责人: Bruce Moskowitz
• 金额: $ 139.61万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 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: 2010-11-01 至 2014-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1028690&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Facility; Support; Institute; Rock; Magnetism

1053743MoscowitzThis award provides $1,396,115 in continued NSF support over 36 months to operate the Institute for Rock Magnetism (IRM) which supports in-depth pure and applied research on rock, sediment and mineral magnetic properties. Funds provide for: PI and associate director summer salary support; a helium reliquification system to recover expensive liquid He; salary support for a Facility manager and staff scientists; travel support for the Visiting Fellows program and advisory committee meetings; support for consumables (e.g., liquid He, liquid Nitrogen and gases) and replacement parts; and publishing and mailing costs for the IRM quarterly newsletter. The IRM has been funded by the Instrumentation and Facilities Program (IF) in the Division of Earth Sciences for the last twenty years to support, develop and operate a world-class, international multi-user facility for studies in rock magnetism and paleomagnetism. IRM's goals include: 1) providing service to the community to foster a deeper understanding of the complex physical mechanisms that govern the magnetic behavior (under varying conditions of temperature, time, stress, and ambient magnetic field) of fine-particle assemblages including natural nanoparticles of iron oxides, hydroxides and sulfides; 2) providing the geoscience research community with access to a full suite of sensitive instrumentation for these detailed studies; 3) maintaining the facility instrumentation and computer network; 4) providing visiting scholars with the support necessary to use the facilities effectively, including technical, educational, and logistical components of support; 5) adapting methods and techniques from physics and materials science, as well as developing new methods, for using magnetic measurement data to characterize complex natural samples and to address questions of specific interest to geoscientists; and; 6) serving as a catalyst in widening and improving the applications of magnetic analysis in geological and biological studies, by holding workshops and conferences, and by maintaining active (and separately funded) research programs in those areas; and 7) .providing research-related news and information to the geoscience community and related disciplines through a web site, online database and quarterly newsletters. Continued facility support will provide and enhance research infrastructure for the geoscience community. IRM maintains and provides access to a set of advanced instruments for magnetic research that is unique in the Earth sciences, and fosters interdisciplinary collaboration by organizing biannual topical conferences and occasional training workshops. Undergraduates from UM, local colleges, and from around the country receive support through numerous programs including NSF-REU program and mentorship of IRM-resident graduate students, post-docs, faculty and staff. A new Summer School for Rock Magnetism will be started targeted at graduate and advanced undergraduates in the geosciences. IRM organizes interdisciplinary workshops, publishes information and articles for non-specialist audiences in our quarterly newsletter and on our web site, and maintains a public database of experimental results on well-characterized synthetic and natural magnetic materials.***

1053743 Moscowitz该奖项提供了1，396，115美元的持续NSF支持超过36个月，以运营岩石磁性研究所（Institute for Rock Magnetism），该研究所支持对岩石，沉积物和矿物磁性进行深入的纯研究和应用研究。资金用于：PI和副主任夏季工资支持;氦再液化系统，以回收昂贵的液体He;设施经理和工作人员科学家的工资支持;访问学者计划和咨询委员会会议的旅行支持;消耗品支持（例如，液氦、液氮和气体）和更换零件;以及《联合国海洋法公约》季刊的出版和邮寄费用。在过去的二十年里，地球科学部的仪器和设施计划（IF）一直在资助该中心，以支持、开发和运营一个世界级的国际多用户设施，用于岩石磁学和古地磁学的研究。该组织的目标包括：1）为社区提供服务，以促进对控制磁行为的复杂物理机制的更深入理解（在温度、时间、应力和环境磁场的变化条件下）包括铁氧化物、氢氧化物和硫化物的天然纳米颗粒的细颗粒组合; 2）为地球科学研究界提供一整套敏感仪器，以进行这些详细的研究; 3）维护设施仪器和计算机网络; 4）为访问学者提供有效使用设施所需的支持，包括技术，教育和后勤支持; 5）调整物理学和材料科学的方法和技术，并开发新的方法，以使用磁性测量数据来表征复杂的自然样品，并解决地球科学家特别感兴趣的问题;和; 6）通过举办讲习班和会议，以及通过在这些领域保持积极的（单独资助的）研究方案，在扩大和改进磁分析在地质和生物研究中的应用方面发挥催化剂的作用;以及7）通过网站、在线数据库和季度通讯向地球科学界和相关学科提供与研究有关的新闻和信息。持续的设施支持将为地球科学界提供并加强研究基础设施。地球物理研究所维护并提供一套在地球科学中独一无二的先进磁力研究仪器，并通过组织一年两次的专题会议和不定期的培训讲习班促进跨学科合作。来自UM，地方学院和全国各地的本科生通过众多计划获得支持，包括NSF-REU计划和IRM居民研究生，博士后，教职员工的导师。一个新的岩石磁性暑期学校将开始针对研究生和高级本科生在地球科学。该组织举办跨学科研讨会，在我们的季度通讯和网站上为非专业观众发布信息和文章，并维护一个关于特征良好的合成和天然磁性材料实验结果的公共数据库。