MRI: Acquisition of a Scanning Electron Microscope with Energy Dispersive Spectrometry for Collaborative Research in Geobiology

MRI：获取具有能量色散光谱测量功能的扫描电子显微镜，用于地球生物学的合作研究

• 批准号: 1532226
• 负责人: Russell Shapiro
• 金额: $ 18.58万
• 依托单位: Chico State Enterprises
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-15 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1532226&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; Scanning; Electron; Microscope

This award will provide funds to acquire a compact Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) to support a new collaborative Geobiology Research Group, consisting of current and new faculty in Biology and Geosciences. This group's mission is to facilitate cross-disciplinary research, with the primary goal of training undergraduate researchers. Geobiology is a rapidly-growing research area that focuses on the interaction of microorganisms with their mineral environment, and SEM is a critical tool to study both organisms and mineral analysis. The SEM to be acquired is a new compact but full-featured, low-cost instrument that is well suited as a cross-disciplinary microscope for a primarily-undergraduate institution. The instrument will be used to characterize both prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes, minerals produced by microbial activity, and the geochemical and microstructural attributes of fossil biosignatures and host rock lithology. Designed for simplicity and ease of maintenance, this compact, research-grade SEM is ideal for an institution focused on fostering independent undergraduate research projects to explore both the current and past evolution of microbes and their environment.

该奖项将提供资金购买一台紧凑型扫描电子显微镜（SEM），以支持一个新的合作地球生物学研究小组，该小组由生物学和地球科学领域的现有和新教师组成。该小组的使命是促进跨学科研究，主要目标是培训本科研究人员。地球生物学是一个快速发展的研究领域，专注于微生物与其矿物环境的相互作用，而扫描电镜是研究生物体和矿物分析的重要工具。将购买的 SEM 是一种新型紧凑但功能齐全、成本低廉的仪器，非常适合作为本科院校的跨学科显微镜。该仪器将用于表征原核和真核微生物、微生物活动产生的矿物质以及化石生物特征和主岩岩性的地球化学和微观结构属性。这款紧凑型研究级 SEM 的设计简单且易于维护，非常适合致力于培养独立本科生研究项目以探索微生物及其环境当前和过去进化的机构。