Acquisition of an Automated Electron Microprobe

该奖项提供了获得电子显微探针所需资金的一半，该探针将安装在耶鲁大学地质与地球物理系。耶鲁大学承诺提供收购所需的剩余资金。新的电子探针系统将取代21年的旧仪器，现在已经过时了。新的探针将满足耶鲁大学许多研究人员的分析需求。地质与地球物理系正在扩展的研究项目需要电子探针的微观分析能力，这些项目包括火成岩、变质岩和沉积岩石学、地球化学、矿物学、构造地质学、经济地质学和考古冶金学。耶鲁大学化学工程系和机械工程系的研究项目也有望使用定量微探针分析。

This award provides one-half the funding necessary to acquire an electron microprobe that will be installed in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale University. Yale University is committed to providing the remaining funds needed for the acquisition. The new electron microprobe system will replace a 21-year old instrument that is now obsolete. The new probe will satisfy the analytical needs of a number of researchers at Yale. Expanding research programs in the Department of Geology and Geophysics that require the microanalytical capabilities of the electron probe include projects in igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary petrology, geochemistry, mineralogy, structural geology, economic geology and archeometallurgy. Research programs in the departments of chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Yale are also expected to make use of quantitative microprobe analysis.