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，以获取一种敏感的工具来测量罗格斯大学古磁实验室中岩石的磁铁性能。该仪器将用于促进地球科学的进步。 这种新仪器将支持女性，早期研究员的实验室发展和研究计划。 使用仪器还将支持研究生和博士后研究人员的培训。该系统将是在美国整个中大西洋地区唯一运行的系统。Paleomagnetic研究为地球和其他行星体的历史提供了强大的窗口。作为岩石形成，它们记录了可以在实验室中测量的磁化，以推断出在形成时周围场的强度，并且在许多情况下都可以推断出磁化。 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其他行星体上的动力磁场。