Acquisition of Equipment for Paleomagnetic and Biogeochemical Research

该奖项将为获取仪器提供部分资金，用于研究海洋沉积物的古地磁以及如何获取和保存这些仪器。该设备将在加州大学圣地亚哥分校的斯克里普斯海洋学分析设施进行操作和维护。大学承诺提供剩余的必要资金。该设备将用于在受控的实验室条件下研究绿锈（一种亚稳的碳酸铁）及其最终稳定的分解产物磁铁矿的形成、化学转化、生物分子相互作用和磁化。磁铁矿是沉积岩剩余磁化的主要贡献者之一，揭示其形成和磁化的原因是理解岩石磁性的关键之一。

This award will provide partial funding for the acquisition of instrumentation to study the paleomagnetism of ocean sediments and how it is acquired and preserved. The equipment will be operated and maintained in the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Analytical Facility at the University of California, San Diego. The University is committed to providing the remaining funds necessary. The equipment will be used to study under controlled laboratory conditions the formation, chemical transformation, biomolecular interaction and magnetization of green rust (a metastable ferroferric carbonate) and its eventual stable breakdown product, magnetite. Magnetite is one of the main contributors to the remanent magnetization of sedimentary rocks, and unraveling the causes of its formation and magnetization is one of the keys to understanding rock magnetism.