Upgrading and Automating an X-ray Diffractometer

现有的x射线衍射仪将进行升级，并将其电脑化，以便进行数据采集和分析。升级后的仪器将用于一系列中级实验室和矿物学、沉积学和岩石学课程。通过这些实验室，学生将学习如何使用仪器来回答他们自己的研究问题。在这些改进后的实验室中，有几个重点将放在塞内卡湖的沉积物上，这些学院就坐落在塞内卡湖上，他们在塞内卡湖上维持一艘研究船，以支持对塞内卡湖及其沉积物的研究。升级和自动化的衍射仪将为这个独特的本科生研究机会提供更大的支持。学院将提供50%的配套资金。

The existing X-ray diffractometer will be upgraded and computerized for data acquisition and analysis. The upgraded instrument will be used in a series of intermediate level laboratories and in courses in mineralogy, sedimentology, and petrology. Through these laboratories, students will learn how to use the instrument to answer their own research questions. An important focus of several of these improved laboratories will be sediments from Seneca Lake, on which the colleges are located, and on which they maintain a research vessel to support studies of the lake and its sediments. An upgraded and automated diffractometer will provide greater support for this unique undergraduate research opportunity. The college will provide 50% matching funds.