RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY STUDIES OF TROPICAL, TEMPERATE AND POLAR CORALS

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中利用 资源由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 调查员(PI)可能从NIH的另一个来源获得了主要资金， 并因此可以在其他清晰的条目中表示。列出的机构是 该中心不一定是调查人员的机构。 生物矿化过程是形成生物骨架的机制。就珊瑚而言，这些骨骼构成了过去气候变化的记录。该项目的一个重要方面是确定在完整的珊瑚骨架内区分方解石和文石晶体的能力，并将回答有关珊瑚如何在不同环境中形成骨骼的基本问题，一些人认为热力学上是不利的。结合其他分析技术，将使用拉曼光谱对矿物学进行分析。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The process of biomineralization is the mechanism by which biogenic skeletons are formed. In the case of coral, there skeletons form a record of past climate change. An important aspect in this project is the determine the ability to distinguish calcite from aragonite crystals within the intact coral skeleton and will answer fundamental questions about the how corals make skeletons in different environments, some considered thermodynamically unfavorable. In combination with other analytical techniques, Raman spectroscopy will be used to analyze the mineralogy.