Acquisition of an Electron Microprobe

该奖项将提供购买电子显微探针所需资金的一半，用于在马萨诸塞大学地质与地理系安装和操作。大学承诺提供剩余一半的必要资金。电子探针的分析能力（对浓度低至百万分之几百的各种元素进行化学分析，空间分辨率为几微米）对岩石学、矿物学和构造地质学的研究至关重要。马萨诸塞大学将受益于新设备的研究项目包括对新英格兰阿巴拉契亚山脉、北美东部中生代沉积盆地和非洲下地壳和上地幔的研究。

This award will provide one-half of the funds required to purchase an electron microprobe for installation and operation in the Department of Geology and Geography at the University of Massachusetts. The University is committed to providing the remaining one-half of the funds necessary. The analytical capabilities of the electron microprobe (chemical analysis of a wide range of elements at concentrations down to a few hundred parts per million with a spatial resolution of a few micrometers) are central to research in petrology, mineralogy and structural geology. The research projects at the University of Massachusetts that will benefit from the new equipment include studies of the New England Appalachians, the sedimentary basins of Mesozoic eastern North America and the lower crust and upper mantle underneath Africa.