Equipment Request to Support Process-Oriented Studies of theFormation of the Sedimentary Record

该合同支持采购在多种不同环境中分析沉积记录形成过程的设备。该奖项将推进北冰洋峡湾、高纬度海洋陆架沉积系统、海洋外陆架和斜坡环境以及碳酸盐矿物沉淀的地球化学过程方面的面向过程的研究。所要求的设备包括：阿尔法光谱分析系统、碳-氮分析系统和分光光度计。所要求的设备将补充北伊利诺伊大学的分析基地，该基地在环境变化的地质记录以及北极和南极环境地质记录的形成过程中的研究和教学方面得到了很好的发展。

This award supports the acquisition of equipment for analysis of sedimentary record forming processes in a number of different environments. This award will forward process-oriented research in Arctic fjords, high latitude marine shelf sedimentary systems, marine outer shelf and slope environments, and geochemical processes governing carbonate mineral precipitation. The equipment requested includes: an alpha spectroscopy system, a carbon- nitrogen analyser system, and a spectrophotometer. The requested equipment will complement the analytical base at Northern Illinois University which is well developed for research and teaching in the geological record of environmental change, and in the processes governing the formation of the geological record in Arctic and Antarctic environments.