Early Career: acquisition of a superconducting rock magnetometer with automated sample handling and rock magnetic characterization for paleomagnetism research

早期职业生涯：购买具有自动样品处理和岩石磁性表征功能的超导岩石磁力计，用于古地磁学研究

• 批准号: 1535812
• 负责人: Sonia Tikoo-Schantz
• 金额: $ 53.02万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-04-01 至 2018-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1535812&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Early; Career; acquisition; superconducting; rock

This award will provide funding to acquire a sensitive instrument to measure magnet properties of rocks in the paleomagnetism laboratory at Rutgers University. The instrumentation will be used to promote progress in the earth sciences. This new instrumentation will support the laboratory development and research program of a female, early-career researcher. Access to the instrumentation will also support the training of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. This system will be the only one of its kind in operation in the entire Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.Paleomagnetic studies provide a powerful window into the histories of Earth and other planetary bodies. As rocks form, they record magnetizations which can be measured in the laboratory to infer both the orientation and, in many cases, the intensity of the ambient field at the time of formation. The new system will be used to address a diversity of problems in the earth and planetary sciences including (1) paleolatitude studies to test different tectonic models for India-Eurasia convergence during the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods, (2) determining the magnetic effects of hypervelocity impact events on target rocks to guide the interpretation of the magnetizations of cratered planetary surfaces, and (3) constraining the physical processes that generated ancient dynamo magnetic fields on other planetary bodies.

该奖项将提供资金，用于购买一种敏感的仪器，以测量罗格斯大学古地磁实验室岩石的磁性。仪器将用于促进地球科学的进步。 这种新的仪器将支持实验室的发展和研究计划的女性，职业生涯早期的研究人员。 获得仪器还将支持研究生和博士后研究人员的培训。这个系统将是美国整个大西洋中部地区唯一一个在运行的系统，古地磁研究为了解地球和其他行星体的历史提供了一个强有力的窗口。当岩石形成时，它们会记录下磁化强度，这些磁化强度可以在实验室中测量，以推断岩石形成时的方向，在许多情况下，还可以推断周围磁场的强度。 新系统将用于解决地球和行星科学中的各种问题，包括（1）古纬度研究，以测试白垩纪和古近纪期间印度-欧亚大陆会聚的不同构造模型，（2）确定超高速撞击事件对目标岩石的磁效应，以指导对陨石坑行星表面磁化的解释，（3）限制了在其他行星上产生古代发电机磁场的物理过程。