Laboratory Technician Support: University of Connecticut Helium Geothermochronology Laboratory

该奖项将资助康涅狄格大学氦地热年代学实验室（HGL）的一名实验室技术人员。HGL支持各种矿物的低温(U-Th)/He热年代学研究，包括磷灰石、锆石、钛矿和独居石。该合同将使更广泛的地球科学界能够访问HGL设施，并将支持游客培训以及地热年代学的应用和开发。该实验室技术人员支持奖还将通过在实验室环境中为学生提供培训和教育，加强早期职业地球科学家的研究计划，并通过以构造学、地球化学、沉积学、古气候学和地质考古学的深部时间和测年方法为中心的科学推广活动，促进当地曼斯菲尔德、CT社区的参与，从而促进社会科学的发展。HGL的研究重点是解决造山过程中挖掘的时间和机制，特别是利用碎屑多矿物(U-Th)/He地热年代学分析沉积物物源。该合同将支持HGL在更广泛的碎屑矿物（如钛矿、独居石和磷灰石等）上开发改进的方法。实验室技术人员将负责(1)监督校内和访问的学生和研究人员，(2)为康涅狄格大学正在进行的(U-Th)/He地热年代学的研究和方法发展做出贡献，(3)进行日常实验室工作和仪器维护，(4)为科学和应用研究项目提供收费的分析支持，以及(5)参与社区外展活动，以促进公众对深时间、地质年代学的兴趣和知识。和地球过程。

This award will fund a laboratory technician in the Helium Geothermochronology Laboratory (HGL) at the University of Connecticut. The HGL supports research in low-temperature (U-Th)/He thermochronology of a wide range of minerals, including apatite, zircon, titanite, and monazite. This award will enable the broader Earth science community to gain access to the HGL facility and will support visitor training and applications and development in geothermochronology. This laboratory technician support award will also promote science in society by providing student training and education in a laboratory setting, enhancing the research program of an early career geoscientist, and promoting engagement of local Mansfield, CT community through science outreach activities centering on deep time and dating methods in the tectonics, geochemistry, sedimentology, paleoclimatology, and geoarchaeology. Research in the HGL focuses on resolving the timing and mechanisms of exhumation during mountain building, with specific concentration on sediment provenance analysis using detrital multi-mineral (U-Th)/He geothermochronology. This award will support HGL efforts to develop improved methodology on a wider suite of detrital minerals, such as titanite, monazite, and apatite, among others. The laboratory technician will be expected to (1) supervise on-campus and visiting students and researchers, (2) contribute to ongoing research and methodological development of (U-Th)/He geothermochronology at UConn, (3) conduct routine laboratory duties and instrument maintenance, (4) provide fee-for-service analytical support for scientific and applied research projects, and (5) participate in community outreach activities to promote public interest and knowledge in deep-time, geochronology, and Earth processes.