Acquisition of equipment for a high-pressure laboratory

这项奖励为首席研究员最近在哈佛大学地球和行星科学系建立的高温高压实验室使用的设备提供了配套资金。设备包括一台可调节混合气体气氛的高温炉，一台岩相显微镜，以及用于实验室多砧板高压设备的特殊碳化钨砧座。设备齐全的实验室将由首席研究员、同事和他们的研究生在深部地球条件下研究与地质相关的物质，以阐明产生现代地球的早期行星变化。

This award provides matching funds for equipment to be used in the principal investigator's high-temperature-pressure laboratory recently established in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Items of equipment include a high-temperature furnace with provisions for mixed gas atmosphere regulation, a petrographic microscope, and special tungsten carbide anvils for the lab's multi-anvil, high-pressure apparatus. The fully equipped laboratory will be utilized by the principal investigator, colleagues, and their graduate students in studies of geologically relevant materials under deep earth conditions in order to elucidate the early planetary transformations that have produced the modern Earth.