Technical Support for Isotopic Studies of Crust and Upper Mantle Evolution

该奖项为一名研究技术员提供为期三年的部分资助。这名技术人员将在加州大学圣克鲁斯分校地球科学系的同位素地球化学设施工作。这名技术人员将支持五名高级研究人员及其研究生在公共接入实验室的工作。主要仪器是多收集器、高质量分辨率质谱计。该小组的研究重点是从最早的前寒武纪时代到现在的地壳和地幔的化学演化，使用同位素分析来测定年代和追踪物质转移。

This award provides partial funding for the support of a research technician for a period of three year. The technician will be working in the isotope geochemistry facility in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of California in Santa Cruz. The technician will support the work of five senior researchers and their graduate students in common-access laboratories. The primary instrumentation is a multi-collector, high mass resolution mass spectrometer. The group's research focuses on the chemical evolution of the Earth's crust and mantle from earliest pre-Cambrian time to the present, using isotopic analysis for dating processes and tracing mass transfers.