NSF MRI: Acquisition of a 755 Superconducting Rock Magnetometer System to Enhance the Paleomagnetic and Rock Magnetic Laboratory at New Mexico Highlands University

1623807PetronisThis重大研究仪器（MRI）补助金支持收购超导岩石磁力仪（SRM）配备了在线交变场退磁器和自动化样品处理系统的自然科学系在新墨西哥州高地大学（NMHU）。 SRM将补充NMHU现有的古和岩石磁性分析设备，并将作为国家和区域设施，用于调查天然材料的磁性。 该设施将支持多个国家和国际合作科学项目。 鉴于在分析和科学研究方法方面培训代表性不足的学生的重要性，这种支持与国家科学基金会促进科学进步和促进国家健康、繁荣和福利的使命是一致的。 NMHU是一个主要的本科生和西班牙裔服务机构，研究人员有从事实验室和实地研究的本科生的良好记录。 NMHU的许多学生都是第一代大学生。新的SRM将支持广泛的研究和研究培训应用，这些应用需要能够确定通常弱磁化材料的剩磁，包括基于古地磁和岩石磁组构分析的地壳变形过程研究，基于古地磁代理的过去气候条件研究，浅地壳岩浆就位过程的古地磁调查，重要大陆含水层沉积时间的调查，以及指示过去全球冰川事件的新元古代帽碳酸盐的时间和范围。

1623807PetronisThis Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant supports acquisition of a superconducting rock magnetometer (SRM) equipped with an in-line alternating field demagnetizer and automated sample handling system for the Department of Natural Sciences at New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU). The SRM will complement extant paleo and rock magnetic analytical equipment at NMHU and will serve as a state and regional facility for investigation for the magnetic properties of natural materials. The facility will support multiple national and international collaborative science projects. This support is congruent with NSFs mission of promoting the progress of science and advancing the national health, prosperity and welfare given the importance of training underrepresented students in methods of analysis and scientific research. NMHU is a primarily undergraduate and Hispanic Serving Institution and the investigator has a strong track record of engaging undergraduates student in laboratory and field research. Many of the students at NMHU are first-generation college students.The new SRM will support a wide range of research and research training applications requiring the ability to determine the magnetic remanence of often weakly magnetized materials , including studies of crustal deformation processes based on paleomagnetic and rock magnetic fabric analysis, studies of past climate conditions based on paleomagnetic proxies, paleomagnetic investigations of shallow crustal magma emplacement processes, investigation of the timing of deposition of important continental aquifers, and the timing and extent of Neoproterozoic cap carbonates indicative of past global glaciation events.***