Laboratory Technician Support: Enhancing Access to the John W. Handin Laboratory for Experimental Rock Deformation

实验室技术人员支持：加强对 John W. Handin 实验室岩石变形实验的访问

• 批准号: 1829264
• 负责人: Hiroko Kitajima
• 金额: $ 65.55万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1829264&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Laboratory; Technician; Support; Enhancing; Access

This award will support a new full-time technical position in the John W. Handin Laboratory for Experimental Rock Deformation at the Center for Tectonophysics, Texas A&M University, with the goal of enhancing research and education opportunities in experimental rock deformation. Experimental rock deformation has played a crucial role in evaluating many scientific and engineering problems that involve mechanics of the Earth. The five-year technician support will let them expand their testing capabilities, increase the impact of laboratory discoveries, and broaden and diversify laboratory users and visitors in research, education and outreach opportunities. Improved technical support will facilitate new collaborations to tackle the most significant problems of our research of earthquake mechanics, plate tectonics, and the character of the Earth's lithosphere, with societal applications to understanding and evaluating natural hazards. The new education and outreach program we envision, facilitated with the new technical position, will advance the transfer of knowledge, help foster critical research to meet the needs of society in the years to come, introduce students to the STEM fields of experimental rock and sediment mechanics, and define career paths in the Earth Sciences. The John W. Handin Laboratory for Experimental Rock Deformation at the Center for Tectonophysics, Texas A&M University has a long history of education and research in experimental rock deformation, and has contributed to understanding the mechanical behavior of lithospheric faults and shear zones by making use of a wide array of deformation apparatus designed to simulate conditions of the Earth's interior. However, the extent of collaboration and use of our laboratory by new users outside their program and from other institutions has been limited by the technical investment and training needed to perform experiments effectively and safely. The new laboratory technician will provide laboratory oversight and training of visitors, assist in development of online preparatory courses, and digital data archiving. Specifically, the new technician will be engaged in projects to (1) enhance utility and maintenance of laboratory facilities, (2) develop new methods and technology, (3) help develop on-line training courses on experimental methods of rock deformation for visiting researchers and students, (4) help expand education/outreach of experimental rock deformation to other programs at Texas A&M and to geoscientists at other institutions, and (5) enhance data management of open-access archives of digital experimental data and technical drawings of apparatus.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项将支持德克萨斯农工大学构造植物学中心的John W. Handin实验室的新全职技术职位，目的是增强实验性岩石变形的研究和教育机会。实验岩石变形在评估涉及地球力学的许多科学和工程问题方面起着至关重要的作用。这位五年的技术人员支持将使他们扩大测试能力，增加实验室发现的影响，并扩大和多样化的实验室使用者以及研究，教育和外展机会的访客。改进的技术支持将促进新的合作，以解决我们对地震力学，板块构造学和地球岩石圈特征的最重要问题，并在理解和评估自然危害方面的社会应用。我们设想的新的教育和外展计划以新的技术地位为便利，将提高知识的转移，帮助培养关键的研究以满足未来几年的社会需求，将学生介绍到实验岩石和沉积物机制的STEM领域，并在地球科学中定义职业道路。 德克萨斯州A＆M大学的John W. Handin实验室的实验岩石变形实验室在实验岩石变形方面的教育和研究历史悠久，并有助于理解岩石圈断层和剪切区的机械行为，通过利用众多旨在模拟地球室内条件的变形设备的机械行为。但是，在计划之外和其他机构外，新用户对我们的实验室进行协作和使用程度受到有效，安全执行实验所需的技术投资和培训的限制。 新的实验室技术人员将提供实验室监督和培训访客，协助开发在线预备课程以及数字数据归档。 Specifically, the new technician will be engaged in projects to (1) enhance utility and maintenance of laboratory facilities, (2) develop new methods and technology, (3) help develop on-line training courses on experimental methods of rock deformation for visiting researchers and students, (4) help expand education/outreach of experimental rock deformation to other programs at Texas A&M and to geoscientists at other institutions, and (5) enhance data management of该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准，这反映了NSF的法定任务。