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Collaborative Research: Community Facility Support: Facilitating Access and Innovation through a Collaborative Organization for Rock Deformation (CORD)

合作研究：社区设施支持：通过岩石变形合作组织 (CORD) 促进获取和创新

基本信息

批准号：
2054414
负责人：
Matej Pec
金额：
$ 15.93万
依托单位：
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-07-01 至 2024-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2054414&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research Community Facility Support

项目摘要

This award provides support to continue a community facility for rock deformation by providing partial funding for two full-time laboratory technician positions, both of which will jointly support the rock deformation laboratories at both Brown University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology as part of CORD: Collaborative Organization for Rock Deformation. Educational and research interactions through CORD will benefit faculty, students and staff visiting this facility. Experimental rock deformation studies provide fundamental insights into the natural phenomena which shape our Earth and other planets, including earthquake generation and viscous flow of rocks and ices. Increasing knowledge of rock properties also plays a key role in meeting societal needs such as exploiting natural resources and enabling CO2 sequestration to mitigate climate change. Owing to technical complexity, only a handful of laboratories exist in the US with the capability to perform such work. Beyond dedicated experimentalists running the equipment, there is a broad user community with interest in performing experiments but without the resources and experience to start their own laboratories. The key challenge in increasing access to existing equipment is the training of users, and maintenance and safe operation of complex machinery. The presence of dedicated technical personnel is an effective way to facilitate access to this sophisticated equipment for a much broader section of the Earth science community and provide a robust, effective, and welcoming laboratory research environment. Visiting scientists will be able to become acquainted with faculty, staff, and students at MIT and Brown. Besides improving outreach to other universities and organizations, the CORD project will promote coordination between the two partner laboratories. Regular meetings, lectures and workshops that can be attended by all those interested available by web-link will be held. Both groups will benefit from insights and best practices developed at both institutions. Lastly, the presence of dedicated technical personnel will facilitate the development of new experimental capabilities, pushing the boundaries of experimental geophysics.The primary goal of this proposal is to encourage and facilitate participation in experimental rock deformation studies by a broader spectrum of scientists within the Earth science community. The technician support increases the availability and efficiency of use of the equipment in the PI’s laboratories to colleagues from other organizations, who are interested in rock deformation, but currently lack access to laboratory these facilities and expertise. The secondary goal is to develop new experimental capabilities. Each laboratory technician has become an expert operator of equipment, and in close collaboration with the PI’s, can train new users. The primary responsibility of the technicians is to maintain the equipment in dependable working order and enable its safe and efficient operation with a broad user base. Maintenance is a priority for maximizing access to visitors working on fixed schedules. Routine tasks include training of new users in collaboration with PIs, and replacement of seals and gaskets, calibration of load cells, displacement transducers etc. The technicians will organize and ensure consistent archiving of experimental data. Other duties include maintaining inventories of consumables and lists of suppliers. Assisting in the design and implementation of new innovative capabilities of the equipment is also an important component of the responsibilities. Scientific and technical advances go hand-in-hand. Sharing technical support provides inter-laboratory calibrations, innovation, standardization of techniques, and development of a consistent format for data management.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.

该奖项通过为两名全职实验室技术人员职位提供部分资金，为继续岩石变形社区设施提供支持，这两名技术人员将共同支持布朗大学和马萨诸塞州理工学院的岩石变形实验室，作为CORD的一部分：岩石变形合作组织。通过CORD的教育和研究互动将有利于教师，学生和工作人员访问这个设施。实验岩石变形研究提供了对塑造我们的地球和其他行星的自然现象的基本见解，包括地震的产生和岩石和冰的粘性流动。增加对岩石性质的了解也在满足社会需求方面发挥着关键作用，例如开发自然资源和使二氧化碳封存能够缓解气候变化。由于技术复杂，美国只有少数实验室有能力进行此类工作。除了专门的实验人员运行设备外，还有广泛的用户社区对执行实验感兴趣，但没有资源和经验来启动自己的实验室。增加现有设备使用机会的主要挑战是培训使用者以及复杂机械的维护和安全操作。专业技术人员的存在是一种有效的方式，可以帮助更广泛的地球科学界获得这种先进的设备，并提供一个强大、有效和热情的实验室研究环境。访问科学家将能够熟悉麻省理工学院和布朗大学的教职员工和学生。除了改善与其他大学和组织的联系外，CORD项目还将促进两个伙伴实验室之间的协调。将举行定期会议、讲座和讲习班，所有感兴趣的人都可以通过网络链接参加。这两个小组都将受益于这两个机构的见解和最佳做法。最后，专职技术人员的存在将促进新的实验能力的发展，推动实验物理学的发展，这一建议的主要目标是鼓励和促进地球科学界更广泛的科学家参与岩石变形实验研究。技术人员的支持增加了PI实验室设备的可用性和使用效率，以帮助其他组织的同事，他们对岩石变形感兴趣，但目前无法使用实验室这些设施和专业知识。第二个目标是开发新的实验能力。每个实验室技术员都已成为设备的专家操作员，并与PI密切合作，可以培训新用户。技术人员的主要责任是保持设备处于可靠的工作状态，并使其在广泛的用户基础上安全有效地运行。维护是一个优先事项，以尽量接近按固定时间表工作的游客。常规任务包括与PI合作培训新用户，更换密封件和垫圈，校准测力传感器，位移传感器等。技术人员将组织并确保实验数据的一致性存档。其他职责包括维持消耗品存货及供应商名单。协助设计和实施新的创新能力的设备也是一个重要组成部分的责任。科学和技术的进步齐头并进。共享技术支持提供实验室间的校准、创新、技术标准化和数据管理一致格式的开发。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。