Major Research Instrumentatin: Acquisition Of An ICP-MS For Archaeometric And Geological Research

在国家科学基金会的支持下，菲尔德博物馆的Laure Dussubieux博士、Patrick Ryan Williams博士和Philipp Heck博士以及西北大学芝加哥科学研究中心艺术研究所的Marc Walton博士将取代菲尔德博物馆元素分析设备(EAF)的核心设备--电感耦合等离子体质谱仪(ICP-MS)。电弧炉主要用于测定各种材料的成分，包括主要、次要和微量元素，包括来自世界各地的黑铁矿、陶瓷、粘土、合成玻璃和金属以及天然陆地和外星岩石。这一新的最先进的仪器将被用来建立广泛的考古、文化和地质材料的新数据库，直接提供关于古代贸易和交流、技术及其与世界各地社会复杂性发展的关系以及地球和太阳系的起源和演化的假设。这一新仪器将有助于本科生、研究生和青年研究人员的研究和培养。他们将通过开展分析本身，开始使用电感耦合等离子体质谱仪进行分析过程，并将接受方法开发、数据统计处理和解释方面的培训。EAF的研究结果将为菲尔德博物馆、艺术学院和东方学院未来的展览和教育活动提供参考，这些博物馆每年教育数十万学童和数百万参观者。一个新的国际合作伙伴关系--MS，不仅将增加菲尔德博物馆的跨学科合作，还将促进菲尔德博物馆与芝加哥其他机构之间的合作努力。其中包括新的西北大学艺术研究所芝加哥科学研究中心、东方研究所(芝加哥大学)和芝加哥宇宙化学中心(C3)，该中心由三个机构组成：野外博物馆、芝加哥大学和阿贡国家实验室，以加强人类学、宇宙化学、地球化学、材料科学和工程领域的培训、科学研究和交流。EAF与菲尔德博物馆、艺术研究所和东方学院收藏品的联系将是一个独特的机会，将领先的学者和研究生与这些机构、广泛的收藏品联系起来，并为他们提供分析这些一类集合的工具，从而显著增强对文化生产在复杂社会发展中的作用的理解。C3使他们的科学家能够访问菲尔德博物馆的世界级陨石、陆地岩石和矿物藏品，并使用其机构和西北大学材料科学与工程系的专业分析工具进行分析，我们与该系建立了密切的合作关系。

With support from the National Science Foundation, Drs. Laure Dussubieux, Patrick Ryan Williams and Philipp Heck from the Field Museum and Dr Marc Walton from the Northwestern University-Art institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies will replace the inductively coupled plasma - mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) that is the central piece of equipment of the Elemental Analysis Facility (EAF) at the Field Museum. The EAF is used mainly to determine the composition, including major, minor, and trace elements, of a large range of materials including obsidian, ceramic, clay, synthesized glass and metals from all around the world and natural terrestrial and extraterrestrial rocks. This new state-of-the-art instrumentation will be used to establish extensive new datasets of archaeological, cultural and geological materials that directly informs hypotheses about ancient trade and exchange, technology, and their relationship to the development of social complexity around the world and the origin and the evolution of Earth and the solar system. This new instrument will contribute to the research and training of undergraduate, graduate students and young researchers. They will be initiated into the analytical process using ICP-MS by undertaking the analysis itself and will be trained in method development, the statistical processing of the data, and interpretation. Results of the research at the EAF will inform future exhibits and education activities at the Field Museum, Art Institute and Oriental Institute, which educate hundreds of thousands of school children and millions of visitors annually. A new ICP-MS, will not only increase inter-disciplinary collaborations at the Field Museum but also stimulate collaborative efforts between the Field Museum and other Chicago-based institutions. Among those are the new Northwestern University-Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies, the Oriental Institute (University of Chicago), and the Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry (C3), comprised of the three-institutions Field Museum, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, to enhance training, scientific research and exchange in the fields of Anthropology, Cosmochemistry, Geochemistry, Materials Science and Engineering. The connection of the EAF with the Field Museum, The Art Institute and the Oriental Institute collections will be a unique opportunity to linking leading scholars and graduate students to those institutions, extensive collections and giving them the tools to analyze these one of a kind assemblages to significantly enhance understanding of the role of cultural production in the development of complex societies. The C3 enables their scientists to access the world-class collections of meteorites, terrestrial rocks and minerals from the Field Museum and analyze them using the specialized analytical tools at its institutions and at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University with whom we have established a close collaboration.