Acquisition of a Multi-Sensor Core Logger for Syracuse University

美国国家科学基金会（NSF）的这一赠款支持锡拉丘兹大学地球科学系购买多传感器岩心记录仪（MSCL）。MSCL扫描钻探的沉积物和岩芯，并确定其属性。MSCL使用几个传感器来检测颜色变化、沉积物密度、磁性和声速。描述不同环境的地球物质是古气候和古环境研究的基础。这些研究为我们了解气候变化和地球系统过程提供了信息。此外，MSCL为识别地下污染物提供了有价值的信息，并为工程、地质考古和地质资源评估提供了信息。该仪器支持NSF促进科学进步和促进国家健康、繁荣和福利的使命。这项技术将提供给纽约北部其他机构的学生和教师，并将使来自区域地球科学和环境科学界的不同研究人员受益。此外，复杂的传感器阵列将多种地球科学技术结合在一台仪器中，使MSCL成为STEM教育推广和培训的宝贵工具。由美国国家科学基金会向锡拉丘兹大学提供的赠款资助的多传感器岩心记录仪（MSCL）包括以下组件：1）MSCL-S基础系统，配有计算机和软件，2）用于测量声波传播的声波P波系统，3）伽马密度测量系统，4）用于完整和分裂岩心的磁化率系统，5）用于量化颜色和岩性的彩色光谱系统（波长360-740 nm），以及6）用于高分辨率岩心照片的线扫描相机。集成的MSCL-S系统将用于锡拉丘兹大学地球科学系的几名教员的研究，他们具有使用岩心材料进行古环境重建的专业知识。该仪器将支持该部门的教师研究，包括使用颜色光谱和湖泊沉积物中的岩性变化来研究新生代期间的热带干旱和海洋-大气联系，以及北极气候和第四纪晚期的永久冻土动态。研究人员在一系列地质时间尺度上研究盆地演化，将使用MSCL-S上的伽马和p波传感器组合来创建？合成地震图？其允许根据盆地范围的地震反射数据精确校准岩心材料。正在进行的部门研究使用缺氧湖泊沉积物和地质样品的组合，以探索全球碳循环和海洋缺氧事件也将受益于使用该仪器上的传感器套件。此外，纽约北部的教育推广、本地研究项目以及资源开发和管理将直接受益于仪器在锡拉丘兹大学的中心位置。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

This National Science Foundation (NSF) grant supports the purchase of a multi-sensor core logger (MSCL) for the Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University. The MSCL scans drilled sediment and rock cores and identifies their properties. The MSCL uses several sensors to detect color variations, sediment density, magnetic properties, and sound speed. Describing earth materials from different environments is fundamental to paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental research. Such research informs our understanding of climate change and earth system processes. In addition, the MSCL provides valuable information for identifying subsurface pollutants, and provides information for engineering, geoarcheology, and geological resource assessment. This instrument supports the NSF mission of promoting the progress of science and advancing the national health, prosperity and welfare. This technology will be available to students and faculty from other institutions in Upstate New York and will benefit diverse researchers from regional geoscience and environmental science communities. Moreover, the sophisticated array of sensors combines several earth science techniques in a single instrument making the MSCL a valuable tool for STEM educational outreach and training.The multi-sensor core logger (MSCL) funded by this grant to Syracuse University from the National Science Foundation includes the following components: 1) the MSCL-S base system with computer and software, 2) an acoustic P-wave system for measuring sound-wave propagation, 3) a gamma-density measurement system, 4) a magnetic susceptibility system for whole and split cores, 5) a color-spectroscopy system (wavelengths 360-740 nm) for quantifying color and lithology, and 6) a line-scan camera for high-resolution core photos. The integrated MSCL-S system will be used in the research of several faculty members in the Department of Earth Science at Syracuse University with expertise in paleoenvironmental reconstructions using core materials. Faculty research in the department that will be supported by this instrument include using color spectroscopy and lithological changes in lake-sediments to investigate tropical drought and ocean-atmosphere linkages during the Cenozoic, as well as Arctic climate and permafrost dynamics over the late Quaternary. Researchers studying basin evolution over a range of geologic timescales will use the combination of gamma and p-wave sensors on the MSCL-S to create ?synthetic seismograms?, which allow for precise calibration of core material to basin-wide seismic reflection data. Ongoing departmental research using a combination of anoxic lake sediments and geologic samples to explore global carbon cycle and ocean anoxic events will also benefit from access to the suite of sensors on this instrument. Furthermore, educational outreach, locally-based research projects, and resource development and management in Upstate New York will directly benefit from the central location of the instrument at Syracuse University.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.