MRI: Acquisition of an electron probe microanalyzer for research and education in the mountain-west region

MRI：购买电子探针显微分析仪，用于西部山区的研究和教育

• 批准号: 2018647
• 负责人: Stacia Gordon
• 金额: $ 94.43万
• 依托单位: Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-11-01 至 2023-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2018647&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; electron; probe; microanalyzer

This award will support the acquisition of an electron probe microanalyzer (EPMA) at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). Researchers across a variety of disciplines, including the Geosciences, Chemical and Materials Engineering, and Anthropology, will use the instrument for generating transformative research, for advancing their research programs, and for research training of graduate and undergraduate students. The EPMA also will significantly impact several areas of technical workforce development of regional importance, and it will provide new opportunities for STEM outreach that leverage existing resources. To achieve these impacts, the EPMA facility will provide valuable training in the analytical techniques of EPMA in a hands-on, research-oriented environment at UNR as well as remotely, including training of students at collaborating Chilean universities. This will be complemented by at least three UNR courses that will translate modern skills beyond the classroom and into the broader regional workforce. Within the region, there is a strong geoscience industry (e.g., mining and geothermal) and a rapidly growing technological industry (e.g., batteries, electronics). The EPMA will further foster relationships with these industry sectors and help promote research and educational collaborations. The UNR EPMA will have a configuration that is optimized for analysis of trace-element and/or light elements and will provide a state-of-the-art EPMA that will serve the large number of faculty members at UNR (16 of which have started at UNR in the last 10 years) and their associated lab groups, as well as the mountain-west region. There are 25+ faculty and their teams whose research requires compositional analyses that warrant an EPMA at UNR. Thirteen of these personnel conduct Earth and planetary science-related research and will be the primary users of the proposed EPMA. This core group of UNR users will be joined by faculty and researchers from at least 12 other universities. The instrument will set the stage for the acquisition of compositional data that will be used to write proposals and journal publications that will accelerate the research careers of the faculty and graduate students and highlight UNR as a world-class research institution. Additionally, only direct on-campus access will allow undergraduate researchers to include substantial EPMA work in their studies and projects, which will make them more competitive as they seek their next career step. An EPMA on campus will also make these students more skilled in microbeam techniques to become the newly trained, next generation scientists. The UNR laboratory will thus be an important new facility for major, trace, and light-element analyses that will serve a critical mass of users on campus and throughout the mountain-west region. In addition, outreach activities coordinated through the Earth Science and Mineral Engineering Museum at UNR will reach diverse K-12 students that visit the museum each year and displays that feature EPMA data will expose these students to STEM-related research and instrumentation.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.

该奖项将支持在里诺内华达大学（UNR）内收购电子探针微分析仪（EPMA）。各种学科的研究人员，包括地球科学，化学和材料工程以及人类学，将使用该工具来产生变革性研究，推进其研究计划，并为研究生和本科生的研究培训。 EPMA还将显着影响区域重要性的技术劳动力发展的几个领域，并将为STEM外展提供新的机会，从而利用现有资源。为了实现这些影响，EPMA设施将在UNR以及远程研究的动手，以研究为导向的环境中的EPMA分析技术中提供宝贵的培训，包括在智利大学合作的学生中培训学生。至少三个UNR课程将补充这一点，这些课程将把现代技能转化为课堂上，并将其转化为更广泛的区域劳动力。在该地区，有一个强大的地球科学行业（例如采矿和地热）以及一个快速增长的技术行业（例如电池，电子产品）。 EPMA将进一步促进与这些行业的关系，并有助于促进研究和教育合作。 UNR EPMA将具有优化的配置，该配置可用于分析痕量元素和/或光元素，并将提供最先进的EPMA，该EPMA将为UNR的大量教职员工服务（其中16个在过去的10年中已经在UNR中启动）及其相关的实验室组，以及山区 - 山区。有25多个教职员工及其团队的研究需要在UNR上进行EPMA的组成分析。这些人员中有13人进行地球和行星科学相关的研究将成为拟议的EPMA的主要用户。该核心UNR用户将由来自至少12所大学的教职员工和研究人员加入。该工具将为获取组成数据奠定阶段，这些数据将用于编写建议和期刊出版物，以加快教职员工和研究生的研究职业，并突出UNR作为世界一流的研究机构。此外，只有直接的校园访问才能使本科研究人员在其研究和项目中包括大量EPMA工作，这将使他们在寻求下一步的职业发展时更具竞争力。校园中的EPMA还将使这些学生更熟练地精通微束技术，成为新训练的下一代科学家。因此，UNR实验室将成为主要，痕迹和光元素分析的重要新设施，这些设施将为校园和整个西部地区的重要用户提供批准的用户。 In addition, outreach activities coordinated through the Earth Science and Mineral Engineering Museum at UNR will reach diverse K-12 students that visit the museum each year and displays that feature EPMA data will expose these students to STEM-related research and instrumentation.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.