MRI: Acquisition of an Automated TL/OSL Luminescence Reader, Gamma Spectrometer, and Portable Field Gamma Spectrometer for the Dating of Sedimentary and Archaeological Materials

1337254样本这一重大研究仪器(MRI)计划赠款支持购买光学刺激发光(OSL)和热释光读取器以及相关的伽马射线光谱仪，以支持新墨西哥高地大学的研究和本科教育，该大学是一所非博士授予机构。NMHU的OSL实验室将支持一些研究，这些研究将受益于确定地质和考古材料中硅酸盐相的埋藏年龄的能力，这些材料的埋藏年龄最早可达数十万年。该仪器将支持对过去冰川和随后的退缩的时间和程度以及过去气候对动植物生命和人类进化和分布的影响的第四纪调查。OSL实验室将是新墨西哥州第一个此类实验室，将支持以西班牙裔学生为主的学生群体的体验式实验室培训。NMHU OSL实验室将为林业、环境地质学、化学、生物学和人类学系的研究人员和学生提供服务，并将支持国内和国际合作。

1337254SammethThis Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program grant supports the acquisition of an optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and thermoluminescence reader and associated gamma ray spectrometer to support research and undergraduate education at New Mexico Highlands University, a non-Ph.D granting institution. The OSL lab at NMHU will support research that will benefit from the ability to date the burial ages of silicate phases in geological and archaeological materials up to several hundreds of thousands years before present. The instrument will support Quaternary investigations of the timing and extent of past glaciations and subsequent retreat and the influence of past climate on plant and animal life and human evolution and distribution. The OSL lab will be the first of its kind in the state of New Mexico and will support experiential laboratory training for a student population dominated by Hispanic students. The NMHU OSL lab will serve researchers and students across the departments of Forestry, Environmental Geology, Chemistry, Biology, and Anthropology and will support national and international collaborations.***